Adriaen van de Velde
Master of Dutch pastoral landscapes
Adriaen van de Velde, was a Dutch animal and landscape painter, son of Willem van de Velde the Elder and brother of Willem van de Velde the Younger, the marine painter. Adriaen did not want to become a marine painter so he was trained in the studio of Jan Wynants, the landscape painter. There he made the acquaintance of Philip Wouwerman, who is believed to have aided him in his studies of animals, and to have exercised a powerful and beneficial influence upon his art. Having made exceptionally rapid progress, he was soon employed by his master to introduce figures into his landscape compositions, and he rendered a similar service to Hobbema, Ruisdael, Verboom and other contemporary artists. According to Houbraken, he died while in collaboration with Jan van der Heyden and Frederik de Moucheron, painting animals on their paintings. His favourite subjects were scenes of open pasture land, with sheep, cattle and goats, which he executed with dexterity, with much precision of touch and truth of draughtsmanship, and with clear silvery colouring. He painted a few small winter scenes with skaters, and several religious subjects, such as the Descent from the Cross, for a Roman Catholic hidden church in Amsterdam and The Migration of Jacob (1663, Wallace Collection). In addition to his paintings, of which nearly two hundred have been catalogued, he executed about twenty etchings, several of which appear from their dates to have been done in his fourteenth year. They are distinguished by directness of method and by delicacy and certainty of touch. Van de Velde lived in Kalverstraat, near the Regulierspoort.
Relationship Network
Master student
- Daniël de Blieck Master
- Dirck van Bergen Student
- Jacob Coning Student
- Jan Mijtens Master
- Jan Wijnants Master
Influenced
Parent child
- Willem van de Velde the Elder Parent
- Cornelis van Noorde Child
Siblings
- Willem van de Velde the Younger Unknown
Artworks by this artist
- Seated Woman Searching for Fleas c. 1671
- Wooded Landscape with Cattle 1663
- Zwei Frauen mit Melken von Schafen und einer Kuh beschäftigt
- A wooded landscape at dusk, with two herdsmen a dog, sheep and cattle 1650
- A Young Girl Walking to the Left mid-17th century
- The Annunciation to the Virgin 1667
- Shepherd and Shepherdess with their Flock at a Well 1668
- Zwei Kühe und einige Schafe, die Hirtin sitzt mit einem Kind unter einem Baum
- Piper
- Scheveningen Beach
- Melkende Magd
- The fishing herdsman 1664
- The Hut 1671
- Pasture with Horses and Cattle 1659 - 1660
- Landschaft mit römischen Ruinen, vorne reitet eine Hirtin mit der Herde durchs Wasser, links zwei Maler
- Portrait of a Couple with Two Children and a Nurse in a Landscape 1667
- Mercury, Argus and Io 1665
- Seated Female Nude 1660-1670
- The Migration of Jacob 1663
- Italianate landscape with a ram, other sheep and a dead tree