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Van de Velde, Vande Velde, or Vandevelde is a Dutch toponymic surname meaning "from the field". Van de Velde is the 32nd most common name in Belgium, with 8,903 people in 2008, while in 2007 there were 3,319 people named "Van de Velde" in The Netherlands. Among other variations on this name are Van der Velde, Vandevelde, Van Velde, Van de Velden, and Van der Velden.
Events from the year 1649 in art.
Events from the year 1621 in art.
Adriaen van Nieulandt was a Dutch painter, draughtsman and engraver of the Baroque period.
Arnold Houbraken was a Dutch painter and writer from Dordrecht, now remembered mainly as a biographer of artists from the Dutch Golden Age.
Jan van de Velde the younger was a Dutch Golden Age painter and engraver of animal, landscape and still-life subjects. He was the son of Jan van de Velde the Elder and the father of the still life painter Jan Jansz van de Velde.
Cornelis Pietersz Bega, or Cornelis Pietersz Begijn was a Dutch Golden Age painter and engraver.
Johannes Mytens or Jan Mijtens was a Dutch Golden Age painter.
Abraham van Goorle or, Latinized, Abraham Gorlaeus was a Dutch antiquary of Flemish origin.
Reinier van Persijn was a Dutch Golden Age engraver of portraits and bookplates.
Het Gulden Cabinet vande Edel Vry Schilder-Const or The Golden Cabinet of the Noble Liberal Art of Painting is a book by the 17th-century Flemish notary and rederijker Cornelis de Bie published in Antwerp. Written in the Dutch language, it contains artist biographies and panegyrics with engraved portraits of 16th- and 17th-century artists, predominantly from the Southern Netherlands. The work is a very important source of information on the artists it describes. It formed the principal source of information for later art historians such as Arnold Houbraken and Jacob Campo Weyerman. It was published in 1662, although the work also mentions 1661 as date of publication.
Adrianus Johannes Ehnle (1819-1863), a Dutch painter of historical and genre subjects, was born at the Hague in 1819, and studied under C. Kruseman. He died in 1863. Among his works are Cornelis de Witt at Dordrecht and The Reception of a Child at the Orphan House at Haarlem.
Johann Georg Holtzhey, was an 18th-century Dutch medallist and mint master.
Willem Pieter Hoevenaar, was a 19th-century painter, draughtsman, lithographer and watercolor artist from the Northern Netherlands.
Pieter Stevensz. van Gunst, also known as Pieter Stevens van Gunst or Petrus Stephani, was a Dutch draughtsman, copperplate engraver and printmaker active in Amsterdam, London (1704), and the Dutch town of Nederhorst (1730-1731). Prints of engravings by Van Gunst are in the collection of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam, the British Museum and the National Portrait Gallery in London, among others.
Hendrik van Oort was a 19th-century painter from the Northern Netherlands. Among his best known works are In the Meadow and The Shoemaker, the latter of which is on display at the Northampton Museum and Art Gallery, painted some time between 1800 and 1830.
Abraham Teniers was a Flemish painter and engraver who specialized in genre paintings of villages, inns and monkey scenes. He was a member of artist family Teniers which came to prominence in the 17th century. He was also active as a publisher.
Franciscus van der Steen was a Flemish painter and engraver who was active in Vienna.
