Jan Jansz. van de Velde was born in Haarlem. In the 1640s he worked in Amsterdam. He was a still-life painter in the tradition ofPieter Claesz. and Willem Heda of Haarlem.
Jan van de Velde
1620 - 1662
Paintings by Jan van de Velde
Jan van de Velde was an Amsterdam artist who specialised in still-life painting. His compositions were simple, like this arrangement of glass, oysters and lemons. The knife handle protruding from the table was designed to demonstrate his skill in showing perspective.A seventeenth-century Dutch st...
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