Untill the end of March in Amsterdam you can visit the Van de Velde exhibition. After March it will move to NMM in London.
I visited the exhibition last Tuesday and I can really recommend to go and see it.
Willem van de Velde de oude and Willem van de Velde de jonge, father and son are the expert in maritime paintings in the 17th century.
Especially father is an expert in ships and makes extremely detailed inkt paintings of ships which are still used till today to reconstruct ships of the 17th century.
His son is an expert painter and makes large paintings. There work was sold all over Europe.
They even worked at the royal court in London and had there workshop in the current building of the maritime museum in Greenwich.
Van de Velde de oude as said his specialty is inkt paintings.
These paintings are made with an ink pen scratching on a white oil paint background.
If you zoom
If we then zoom in to the ship.
And zoom into that
Incredible isn't it. You can imagine that this is a hudge source of information on details of ships.
Much more to follow.
What is this lion tail? Any one knows?
If you have rigging questions, how detailed do you want it.
Man working on the sails.
I visited the exhibition last Tuesday and I can really recommend to go and see it.
Willem van de Velde de oude and Willem van de Velde de jonge, father and son are the expert in maritime paintings in the 17th century.
Especially father is an expert in ships and makes extremely detailed inkt paintings of ships which are still used till today to reconstruct ships of the 17th century.
His son is an expert painter and makes large paintings. There work was sold all over Europe.
They even worked at the royal court in London and had there workshop in the current building of the maritime museum in Greenwich.
Van de Velde de oude as said his specialty is inkt paintings.
These paintings are made with an ink pen scratching on a white oil paint background.
If you zoom
If we then zoom in to the ship.
And zoom into that
Incredible isn't it. You can imagine that this is a hudge source of information on details of ships.
Much more to follow.
What is this lion tail? Any one knows?
If you have rigging questions, how detailed do you want it.
Man working on the sails.