Jan van de Velde the Younger was a Dutch Golden Age painter and printmaker, mostly of animal, landscape and still life subjects, who lived from 1593 to about 1 November 1641. He was born in either Delft or Rotterdam, apprenticed to the engraver Jacob Matham in 1613 and entered the Haarlem guild in 1614. He is better known for his etching and engraving than for his painting, and in 1616 he drew several scenes of Haarlem as a series of 26 landscape prints. He died in Enkhuizen.
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He was the son of Jan van de Velde the Elder and the father of the still life painter Jan Jansz van de Velde.
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He was apprenticed to engraver Jacob Matham in 1613, entered the Haarlem guild in 1614, and then probably visited Italy.
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1 November 1641) was a Dutch Golden Age painter and printmaker, mostly of animal, landscape and still-life subjects.
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