Isaac Sailmaker (1633 – 1721) 

• Born Isaac Zeilmaker.
• Was a Dutch-born British painter and etcher who specialised in marine art.
• Zeilmaker was born in 1633 in the village of Scheveningen in the Dutch Republic.

• He came to London at a young age and became one of the first apprentices of George Geldorp or Gelders.

• Sailmaker was eclipsed by van de Velde and his father Willem van de Velde the Elder when they moved to London in the 1670s.

• Sailmaker, along with Jan van de Hagen, Jacob Knijff, and the most talented of the group, Peter Monamy, were members of the Younger van de Velde's London studio.

• Sailmaker is known to have for worked for England's Lord Protector, Oliver Cromwell during the 1650s, but most of his known works date from the 1680s.

• At the end of his life, Sailmaker was living in a house along King's Bench Walk in the Temple Bar area of the city of London.

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