Willem van de Velde the Elder

Willem van de Velde the Elder
Willem Gerard van de Velde the Elder (Gerard Sibelius, after Godfrey Kneller)
Born
Willem van de Velde

1610/11
Died(1693-12-13)13 December 1693
Sackville Street, London, England.
Known forMarine painting

Willem van de Velde the Elder (1610/11 – 13 December 1693) was a Dutch Golden Age seascape painter, who produced many precise drawings of ships and ink paintings of fleets, but later learned to use oil paints like his son.