_Jan van de Cappelle_ (Dutch: painted about 1650-1680).
Of this painter, whose works have of recent years become
popular with collectors, the Dutch writers have left no record.
Nor has anything been discovered about him beyond the fact
that, on the occasion of his marriage in 1653, he received the
freedom of the city of Amsterdam. One may connect with this
fact the state barge, introduced in some of his pictures,--or
the corporation barge, it may be,--much resembling the barges
belonging to the City and the City Companies which not long ago
might still be seen on the Thames at London, and some of which
survive, transformed into College barges at Oxford. Cappelle's
works are comparatively rare; they show that he loved a calm
sea, lit up with warm rays.