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Willem van de Velde the Elder

1611 - 1693

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Willem van de Velde the Elder has received more than 72,147 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Willem van de Velde the Elder is the 1,289th most popular painter (down from 964th in 2019), the 537th most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 401st in 2019) and the 122nd most popular Dutch Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Willem van de Velde the Elder ranks 1,289 out of 2,023. Before him are Eugen Dücker, Jan van de Cappelle, Sarah Goodridge, Henri Le Fauconnier, Dirk van der Aa, and George Turner. After him are Emanuel Leutze, Georges Vantongerloo, Vilmos Aba-Novák, Francesco Zuccarelli, Pieter Boel, and Abraham van Diepenbeeck.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1611, Willem van de Velde the Elder ranks 17. Before him are Jan Fyt, Antonio de Pereda, Carlo Rainaldi, Magdalene of Nagasaki, James Harrington, and Henry Ireton. After him are Giancarlo de' Medici, Mary Dyer, Andreas Hammerschmidt, John Pell, and Willem Piso. Among people deceased in 1693, Willem van de Velde the Elder ranks 16. Before him are John George II, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Elisabeth Hevelius, John de Britto, Laurent Cassegrain, Maria van Oosterwijck, and Johann Caspar Kerll. After him are Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy, Flavio Chigi, Claudio Coello, and Jan Andrzej Morsztyn.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Willem van de Velde the Elder ranks 537 out of 1,646. Before him are Johannes van den Bosch (1780), Jan van de Cappelle (1624), Abraham Pais (1918), Arnold Mühren (1951), Cornelis Tromp (1629), and Dirk van der Aa (1731). After him are Walter Lewin (1936), Abraham van Diepenbeeck (1596), Anna van Egmont (1533), Michael van Langren (1598), Hendrik C. van de Hulst (1918), and Henri Nouwen (1932).

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Among PAINTERS In Netherlands

Among painters born in Netherlands, Willem van de Velde the Elder ranks 122. Before him are Willem Drost (1633), Gerbrand van den Eeckhout (1621), Adriaen Coorte (1665), Bart van der Leck (1876), Jan van de Cappelle (1624), and Dirk van der Aa (1731). After him are Abraham van Diepenbeeck (1596), Godfried Schalcken (1643), Jan Baptist Weenix (1621), Meijer de Haan (1852), Albert Eckhout (1610), and Corneille de Lyon (1500).

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