Volume 76, Number 3 (2023) Summer 2023

Eighteenth-century portrait of Willem van de Velde the Elder, draftsman to King Charles II, engraved by Gerard Sibelius from an original painting by Godfrey Kneller. In “Seventeenth-Century Dutch Stranger Painter Willem van de Velde the Elder and His Impact on British Maritime Art,” Mary Raum chronicles van de Velde’s emigration from the Netherlands to England and the Dutch-influenced skills in maritime art that he brought with him. The Elder began his career as draftsman for the Dutch admiralty; later, he and his sons created some of the first images of Britain’s expanding Royal Navy in the 1600s.