Adam, Abraham, or Adriaen van Salm, also van (der) Salm (c.1660–1720), was a Dutch draftsman and painter. He produced primarily

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. These were done in pen with

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applied to a cloth or a pre-processed panel. Adriaen van Salm was born in

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. He was the father of Roelof van Salm and in 1706 he was listed as a draughtsman member of the

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. The

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mentions further that he was also a schoolmaster and later a

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. Salm was the father and teacher of the artist Roelof van Salm, who wielded the same technique as well as his father and especially scenes of ships and naval battles. in the

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When

Abraham Jacob van der Aa Abraham Jacob van der Aa (7 December 1792 – 21 March 1857) was a Dutch writer best known for his dictionaries, one of notable people and the other of notable places in the Netherlands. He was born in Amsterdam in 1792. His father was a lawy ...

was writing, he saw a painting by this artist in the collection of the marine painter

Johannes Christiaan Schotel Johannes Christiaan Schotel (11 November 1787 – 21 December 1838) was a 19th-century painter from the Netherlands known for his marines and artwork. Talent was handed down by generation to the next throughout the Schotel family producing nu ...

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1660s births 1720 deaths 18th-century Dutch painters 18th-century Dutch male artists Painters from Rotterdam Dutch male painters Dutch marine artists Painters from Delft Dutch draughtsmen {{Netherlands-painter-stub