Willem van de Velde the Elder (1611-1693)

• Was a Dutch Golden Age seascape painter.
• Willem van de Velde, known as the Elder, a marine draughtsman and painter, was born in Leiden, the son of a Flemish skipper, Willem Willemsz. van de Velde.
• His three known legitimate children were named Magdalena, Willem, known as the Younger, also a marine painter, born 1633; and Adriaen, a landscape painter, born 1636.
• His son, Adriaen, had died in Amsterdam in 1672, and Willem the Elder was also fetching his grandson.
• He moved to England and lived with his family in East Lane, Greenwich.
• He have used the Queen's House, now part of the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, as a studio.
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