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Esaias van de Velde (1587 (baptized) –  1630)

• Was a Dutch landscape painter.
• He was born in Amsterdam.
• His Flemish father Hans had fled to Amsterdam as a Protestant in 1585.
• He probably studied under his father and Gillis van Coninxloo.
• Van de Velde worked in Haarlem from 1610 to 1618.
• He joined the Haarlem Guild of St. Luke in 1612 along with Hercules Segers.
• In addition to landscapes, van de Velde also painted genre and military paintings.
• In Hague he had been Court Painter to the Prince Maurits and Frederick Henry.
• His pupils were Pieter van Laer, Jan Martszen de Jonge, Pieter de Molyn, Pieter de Neyn, Anthony van de Velde (II), and Jan van Goyen.
• He died in The Hague in 1630.
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