Simon de Vlieger's training is undocumented, but his early paintings display the monochrome palette of a marine painter. Willem van de Velde the Elder also may have taught him. From the late 1620s de Vlieger worked in Rotterdam, moving to Delft in 1634 and joining the Guild of Saint Luke there. Four years later he was in Amsterdam. He provided designs for festivities associated with Marie de' Medi
