Calm Sea, after 1640, Oil on wood, 14 3/4 x 17 1/2 in. (37. 5 x 44. 5 cm), Paintings, Simon de Vlieger (Dutch, Rotterdam (? ) ca. 1600/1601?1653 Weesp), The influential marine painter Simon de Vlieger lived in Rotterdam and Delft before settling in Amsterdam about 1638. His silvery seascapes, like this one of about 1645?50, made a great impression upon Jan van de Cappelle (who owned nine paintings and over thirteen hundred drawings drawings by De Vlieger) and Willem van de Velde the Younger