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Willem van de Velde, the Elder: Quick Facts

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Facts

Born 1611 • Leiden • Netherlands
Died December 1693 (aged 82) • London • England

Photos

Cornelis Tromp, detail of an oil painting by Sir Peter Lely and Willem van de Velde; in the Nederlandsch Historisch Scheepvaart Museum, Amsterdam
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Eendracht
Ludolf Backhuysen
Dutch painter
Weenix, Jan Baptist: Landscape with Shepherdess
Jan Baptist Weenix
Dutch painter
Painting by Claude Monet, Self-portrait in Beret, 1886, showing Monet with a full beard, dark beret, and coat against a light, textured background.
Claude Monet
French painter
J.M.W. Turner: The Fighting Temeraire Tugged to Her Last Berth to Be Broken Up, 1838
J.M.W. Turner
English painter
Gustave Courbet
Gustave Courbet
French painter
Claude Lorrain: Ulysses Returns Chryseis to Her Father
Claude Lorrain
French artist
Winslow Homer: Breezing Up (A Fair Wind)
Winslow Homer
American artist
Lane, Fitz Henry: Off Mount Desert Island
Fitz Henry Lane
American painter and lithographer
Heade, Martin Johnson: York Harbor, Coast of Maine
Martin Johnson Heade
American painter
Caspar David Friedrich: Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog
Caspar David Friedrich
German painter
Ryder, Albert Pinkham: The Hunter
Albert Pinkham Ryder
American painter
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Paul Nash
British painter
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John Marin
American artist
Boudin, Eugène: Women on the Beach at Berck
Eugène Boudin
French painter
Paul Signac
Paul Signac
French painter
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William Bradford
American painter [1823–1892]
“The Mask of Joseph Vernet,” chalk and pastel portrait by Maurice-Quentin de La Tour; in the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dijon, Fr.
Joseph Vernet
French painter
Milton Avery, photograph by Arnold Newman, 1961
Milton Avery
American painter
Andreas Achenbach: Sunset After a Storm on the Coast of Sicily
Andreas Achenbach
German painter
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Herman de Limbourg
Flemish artist

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