Jan van de Cappelle: 18 interesting facts

Jan van de Cappelle (or Joannes / van der / Capelle in various combinations; 25 January 1626 (baptized) – 22 December 1679 (buried)) was a Dutch Golden Age painter of seascapes and winter landscapes, also notable as an industrialist and art collector. He is “now considered the outstanding marine painter of 17th century Holland”. He lived whatever his animatronics in Amsterdam, and as with ease as practicing as an artiste spent much, or most, of his period helping to manage his dad Franchoy’s large dyeworks, which specialized in the costly dye carmine, and which he eventually inherited in 1674. Presumably because of this dual career, there are fewer than 150 remaining paintings, a relatively little number for the industrious painters of the Dutch Golden Age. His marine paintings usually decree estuary or river scenes rather than the admittance sea, and the water is always unconditionally calm, allowing it to feat as a mirror reflecting the cloud formations above; this effect was Cappelle’s speciality.