Jan van de Cappelle
(1626 – 1679)

• Was a Dutch Golden Age painter of seascapes and winter landscapes.
• He was an industrialist and art collector.  
• He lived all his life in Amsterdam.
• Cappelle received the citizenship of Amsterdam on 24 July 1653.
• He he had married Annetje Jansdr. Grotingh, the daughter of a bricklayer.
• Van de Cappelle was a very wealthy man who never needed to rely on his painting for his livelihood.
• Abraham Bredius suggested Van de Cappelle was a friend of Rembrandt, at whose insolvency sales in 1656 and 1658 he was a large buyer, and who painted portraits of him and his wife. 
• The majority of his works are marine or river views, nearly always with several vessels, but he also left a number of small winter landscapes.
• There are fewer than 150 surviving paintings.
• The displayed painting is a crop from: Jan van de Cappelle, Shipping in a Calm at Flushing with a States General Yacht Firing a Salute, 1649.
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