Willem van de Velde the Elder

Willem van de Velde the Elder in the archive

Periods & movements

17th Century

Genres

Drawings, Landscape

Cultures

Dutch

Key works by Willem van de Velde the Elder

1. Episode from the Four Days' Naval Battle (11-14 June 1666)
2. Ships and Militia by a Rocky Shore
3. Ships after the Battle (1630 - 1672)
4. Seascape with the Dutch Men-of-War including the 'Drenthe' and the 'Prince Frederick-Henry' (1630 - 1670)
5. The Failed Attack of the English on the Return Fleet in the Port of Bergen, Norway, 12 August 1665; an episode from the Second Anglo-Dutch War (1669)
6. Episode from the Four Days' Battle, 11-14 June 1666, of the Second Anglo-Dutch War, 1665-67 (1668)
7. The Battle of Dunkirk (1659)
8. Peasants