Jacob van Ruisdael
Dutch, 1628/29–1682
Born in Haarlem; died in Amsterdam.
Ruisdael was the leading Dutch landscape painter of the seventeenth century. Probably trained by his father Isaack and his uncle Salomon van Ruysdael in Haarlem, he painted dunes, woods, waterfalls, beaches and wheat fields under towering skies, giving familiar scenery a dramatic, sometimes melancholy weight. He moved to Amsterdam around 1656, and Meindert Hobbema was his pupil. Views such as Wheat Fields show his gift for the low Dutch horizon and the moving clouds above it.
Written by Ochre Editions.
- In the collection
- 4 worksDated 1646–1675
- Mostly
- Paintings, Drawings
- Movement
- Dutch Golden AgeSeventeenth-century painting from the Dutch Republic: still lifes, interiors, portraits and flat, wide skies.
