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544 Painting He painted landscapes and sea-pieces. His drawing is masterly, but his colouring is often unpleasing. Ludolf Bakhuisen (1631 — 1708), who studied under Van Everdingen, is said to have given lessons in marine drawing to Peter the Great, when he was studying naval art at Saardam. He was patronized by monarchs and nobles. So earnest was this painter in his study of the sea that he used to prevail on boatmen to put out in the roughest weather, when scarcely any one else would ven- ture, in order that he might study the foam and the billows. The following are his principal productions : the Return of William of Orange, in the Hague Gallery ; the Embark- ation of Jan de Witt, in the Amsterdam Gallery ; a Vieiv of the Port of Amsterdam, in the Belvedere, Vienna ; and a Butch Squadron, in the Louvre. The National Gallery has five works by Bakhuisen, who is also well represented in private collections in England. Willem van de Velde, the younger (1633—1707), re- ceived instruction from his father, a marine painter, Willem van de Velde, the elder (1610 — 1693), and also from De Vlieger. On the completion of his studies, young Willem came to England, where his father was already engaged in the service of Charles II. In 1676 they each received a salary of £100 per annum from the king — the elder "for taking and making draughts of sea-fights," and the younger " for putting the said draughts into colours." After the death of Charles II. in 1685, the pension was continued by James II. The Van de Veldes, while in England, lived at Greenwich. Willem the younger, the worthy brother of Adriaan, is, indeed, the uncontested master in this genre. His finest works are in England (the country of his adoption), and especially in his own country, where,