Jan van de Velde the Elder

According to the RKD he was possibly the pupil of Felix van Sambix. He married Mayken van Bracht from Turnhout,^[1][2][3] sister-in-law of the publisher Jan van Waesberghe, in 1592 in Rotterdam and opened a French school there.^[4] Their son, Jan van de Velde, became a painter.^[5][6] He published his calligraphy in the Spieghel der Schrijfkonste in 1605.^[4] In 1620 moved to Haarlem, where he was possibly the teacher of the Haarlem calligraphers Jean de la Chambre or Nicolaes Bodding van Laer.^[4]

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