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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 67,760 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Willem van de Velde the Elder is the 965th most popular painter (up from 985th in 2019), the 402nd most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 397th in 2019) and the 90th most popular Dutch Painter.

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Among painters, Willem van de Velde the Elder ranks 965 out of 1,421. Before him are Zao Wou-Ki, Bartolomeo Montagna, Louise Catherine Breslau, January Suchodolski, Rufino Tamayo, and Willem Drost. After him are Varvara Stepanova, Abraham Mignon, Elin Danielson-Gambogi, Barbara Kruger, Henri Le Sidaner, and Polidoro da Caravaggio.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1611, Willem van de Velde the Elder ranks 13. Before him are Safi of Persia, Marie Louise Gonzaga, Cecilia Renata of Austria, Karl Eusebius, Prince of Liechtenstein, Jan Fyt, and Carlo Rainaldi. After him are James Harrington, John Pell, Henry Ireton, Mary Dyer, and Giancarlo de' Medici. Among people deceased in 1693, Willem van de Velde the Elder ranks 13. Before him are Nicolaes Maes, Odoardo Farnese, Hereditary Prince of Parma, Johann Weikhard von Valvasor, Elisabeth Hevelius, Maria van Oosterwijck, and John George II, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau. After him are Johann Caspar Kerll, John de Britto, Laurent Cassegrain, Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy, and Jan Andrzej Morsztyn.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Willem van de Velde the Elder ranks 402 out of 1,427. Before him are Walter Lewin (1936), Cornelis de Bruijn (1652), Cornelis Vreeswijk (1937), Willem Drost (1633), Roche Braziliano (1630), and Herman Willem Daendels (1762). After him are Herman Gorter (1864), Cornelis Cort (1533), Edward, Count Palatine of Simmern (1625), Herman Snellen (1834), Pieter Both (1568), and Hendrik C. van de Hulst (1918).

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Among PAINTERS In Netherlands

Among painters born in Netherlands, Willem van de Velde the Elder ranks 90. Before him are Cornelis van Poelenburgh (1594), Frans van Mieris the Elder (1635), Melchior d'Hondecoeter (1636), Thomas de Keyser (1596), Isaac van Ostade (1621), and Willem Drost (1633). After him are Cornelis Cort (1533), Adriaen van de Venne (1589), Caspar van Wittel (1653), Leonaert Bramer (1596), Anthon van Rappard (1858), and Gerbrand van den Eeckhout (1621).

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