A number of people have had the surname Van de Velde (Dutch for "of the field") including:
Artists
- Pedro Campaña (1503–1586), also known as Peter Van de Velde, Flemish Renaissance painter
- Esaias van de Velde (b. 1587), Dutch landscape painter
- Jan van de Velde (b. 1593), Dutch engraver and painter; cousin of the above
- Jan Jansz van de Velde (1620-1662), Dutch still life painter; son of the above
- Willem van de Velde, the elder (c. 1611–1693); no relation to the above
- Willem van de Velde, the younger (1633–1707), son of Willem the Elder
- Adriaen van de Velde (1636–1672), son of Willem the Elder
- Henry van de Velde, Art Nouveau painter, architect and interior designer
Others
- James van de Velde, former Yale University lecturer and a figure in the 1998 Suzanne Jovin case
- Jean van de Velde (golfer), French golfer
- Jean van de Velde (director), film director of The Silent Army (Wit Licht)
- Theodoor Hendrik van de Velde, sexologist
Famous quotes containing the word van:
“It is not a certain conformity of manners that the painting of Van Gogh attacks, but rather the conformity of institutions themselves. And even external nature, with her climates, her tides, and her equinoctial storms, cannot, after van Gogh’s stay upon earth, maintain the same gravitation.”
—Antonin Artaud (1896–1948)