Lot 342: Esaias van de Esaias van de Velde Amsterdam um

Esaias van de Esaias van de Velde
Amsterdam um 1587 - Den Haag 1630 attr.
Resting Soldiers
Oil/wood, 32,5 x 61 cm, some rest. - Prov.: Boer Fine Arts, Amsterdam; Cramer Fine Arts, Amsterdam 1979. - Lit.: Burlington Magazine Okt. 1978, Vol. CXX, no. 907. - Dutch landscape a. figure painter from a family of artists. V. lived in Haarlem in 1610, but moved to The Hague in 1618. His teachers were possibly his father Hans as well as G. van Coninxloo. V. is a pioneer in establishing landscape painting as a genre of ist own, but also had high abilities in painting figures which captivate by realism, colour a. vividness. Among his pupils were P. van Laer a. J. van Goyen. - Mus.: Amsterdam (Rijksmus.), Rotterdam (Boymans-van Beuningen), London (V&A, Brit. Mus.), Berlin, Stockholm, The Hague, Copenhagen, Dresden a. others. - Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Bénézit, Bernt a. others.