For much of his short life – he died when he was just 35 – he was regarded as one of the greatest artists of the 17th century. During his lifetime he was known as an outstanding painter of people and animals. His posthumous fame endured until the mid-20th century. Today, the public is barely aware of his name, and the Rijksmuseum and the Dulwich Picture Gallery in London have decided to rectify this situation. A landscape painter from a family of seascape painters Son of the famous marine painter Willem van de Velde the Elder and brother of the equally famous Willem van de Velde the Younger, child prodigy Adriaen became a landscape painter – and a phenomenal draftsman. His figure and animal studies – usually drawn in red chalk – are regarded as sublime examples of the genre. His drawings reveal that he made meticulous preparations for his popular painted landscapes. Other artists also regularly asked him to paint figures in their landscapes and townscapes. [http://arthistorynewsreport.blogspot.nl/2016/06/adriaen-van-de-velde-dutch-master-of.html] Over a career of less than two decades Van de Velde produced a varied body of paintings and drawings that earned him tremendous posthumous fame in the 18th and 19th centuries, when he was one of the most sought-after names among collectors in Germany, France and England. Van de Velde was born in Amsterdam, the son and brother respectively of the marine painters Willem van de Velde the Elder and Willem van de Velde the Younger. Adriaen van de Velde, however, pursued an independent career as a landscape painter to focus on tranquil landscapes that depict both typically Dutch and Italianizing views populated by figures in peaceful harmony with animals and the surrounding landscape. ...Especially in his later work Van de Velde succeeded in incorporating the sun-drenched atmosphere of Italianate painters such as Karel Dujardin... [http://arthistorynewsreport.blogspot.nl/2016/10/adriaen-van-de-velde-master-of-dutch.html] undefined

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