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Willem van de Velde II came from one of the greatest seventeenth
century families of Dutch masters; his father, Willem van de Velde I
(1611-1693), was a first rate draughtsman of marines, whose love of the
sea and ships was inherited by his youngest son. Adriaen van de Velde
(1636-1672), Willem II's older brother, excelled in the pastoral
landscape. Willem II was influenced by his father, and, especially in
the early part of his career, also by his contemporaries, Simon de
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