| Indeed van Goyen's teacher Esaias van de Velde for years influenced the work of van Goyen, who was only a little younger, in composition, colour and motif. |
| He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias. |
| Esaias Tegner, our nineteenth-century national bard, says that all the words in the Swedish referring to anything but barbarianism are loan words. |
| The Haarlem painters Willem Pieterszoon Buytewech, Frans Hals and Esaias van de Velde were important painters early in the period. |
