Brief Biography-Esaias van de Velde was born in Amsterdam circa 1587, but the first records were in Haarlem in 1610, and he married the following year. He was regarded as one of the first Dutch genre artists and was also an etcher. The guild of Saint Luke accepted him in 1612. In 1618, the Prince of Orange engaged him in Den Haag. He is known to have also worked in Leyden. Landscape artists employed him to insert staffage into their paintings. Esaias's works consisted of Landscapes, cavalry battles and genre scenes. Jan van Goyen and Jan Asselyn were two of his many notable students.