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• ADRIAN
• ADRIAN, SAINT

ADRIAN See also:

• ADRIAN VANDEVELDE (1639-1672)
• VANDEVELDE, WILLIAM (1633-1707)

VANDEVELDE (1639-1672)  , Dutch See also:

• ANIMAL
• ANIMAL (Lat. animalis, from anima, breath, soul)

animal and landscape painter, a See also:

• BROTHER

brother of See also:

• WILLIAM
• WILLIAM (1143-1214)
• WILLIAM (1227-1256)
• WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
• WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
• WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
• WILLIAM, 13TH

William See also:

• VANDEVELDE, ADRIAN (1639-1672)
• VANDEVELDE, WILLIAM (1633-1707)

Vandevelde (q.v.), the marine painter, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• AMSTERDAM
• AMSTERDAM (NEw AMSTERDAM)

Amsterdam in 1639 . He was trained in the studio of See also:

• JAN

Jan Wynants, the landscape painter, where he made the acquaintance of See also:

• PHILIP
• PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
• PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
• PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
• PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)

Philip See also:

• WOUWERMAN, PHILIP (1618-1668)

Wouwerman, who is believed to have aided him in his studies of animals, and to have exercised a powerful and beneficial See also:

• INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

influence upon his See also:

• ART

art . Having made exceptionally rapid progress, he was soon employed by his See also:

• MASTER (Lat. magister, related to tnagis, more, as the corresponding minister is to minus, less; the English form is due partly to the O. Eng. maegister, and partly to O. Fr. maistre, mod. maitre; cf. Du. meester, Ger. Meister, Ital. maestro)

master to introduce figures into his landscape compositions, and he rendered a similar service to See also:

• HOBBEMA, MEYNDERT (c. 1638-1709)

Hobbema, See also:

• RUYSDAEL (or RUISDAAL), JACOB VAN (c. 1628-1682)

Ruysdael, Verboom and other contemporary artists . His favourite subjects are scenes of open pasture See also:

• LAND

land, with See also:

• SHEEP
• SHEEP (from the Anglo-Saxon sceap, a word common in various forms to Teutonic languages; e.g. the German Schaf)

sheep, See also:

• CATTLE (Norman Fr. catel, from Late Lat. capitale, wealth or property, a word applied in the feudal system to movable property and particularly to live stock, and surviving in its wider meaning as " chattel " or " chattle ")

cattle and goats, which he executed with admirable dexterity, with much precision of See also:

• TOUCH (derived through Fr. toucher from a common Teutonic and Indo-Germanic root, cf. " tug," " tuck," O. H. Ger. zucchen, to twitch or draw)

touch and truth of draughtsmanship, and with clear silvery colouring . He painted a few small but excellent See also:

• WINTER, JOHN STRANGE
• WINTER, PETER (c. 1755-1825)

winter scenes with skaters, and several religious subjects, such as the " Descent from the See also:

• CROSS

Cross," for the See also:

• ROMAN

Roman See also:

• CATHOLIC (Gr. KcaBoXuK6s, general, universal)

Catholic See also:

• CHURCH
• CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
• CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
• CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
• CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
• CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)

church in Amsterdam . In addition to his paintings, of which nearly two See also:

• HUNDRED

hundred have been catalogued, he executed about twenty etchings, several of which appear from their See also:

• DATES

dates to have been done in his fourteenth See also:

• YEAR

year . They are See also:

• SIMPLE

simple but pleasing in tonality, and are distinguished by See also:

• GREAT

great directness of method and by delicacy and certainty of touch . See also:

• ADRIAN
• ADRIAN, SAINT

Adrian Vandevelde died at Amsterdam in See also:

• JANUARY

January 1672 .