Jacob Salomonsz. van Ruysdael (1629,

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– 1681,

), was a

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landscape painter who was the son of

Salomon van Ruysdael Salomon van Ruysdael (c. 1602, Naarden – buried 3 November 1670, Haarlem) was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter. He was the uncle of Jacob van Ruisdael.

and the cousin of the more famous

Jacob Isaakszoon van Ruisdael Jacob Isaackszoon van Ruisdael (; 1629 – 10 March 1682) was a Dutch painter, draughtsman, and etcher. He is generally considered the pre-eminent landscape painter of the Dutch Golden Age, a period of great wealth and cultural ac ...

Biography

The contemporary biographer

Arnold Houbraken Arnold Houbraken (28 March 1660 – 14 October 1719) was a Dutch painter and writer from Dordrecht, now remembered mainly as a biographer of Dutch Golden Age painters. Life Houbraken was sent first to learn ''threadtwisting'' (Twyndraat) fr ...

mixed up the various members of the Ruisdael family and assumed that all of their landscapes were the works of two brothers Jacob and Salomon,Jacob and Salomon Ruisdael Biography
in ''De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen'' (1718) by

, courtesy of the

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when in fact there were four painters; the brothers Isaack and Salomon, and their two sons who were confusingly both named Jacob and lived during the same period. According to the

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(Dutch abbreviation, RKD), this Jacob was the son of Salomon van Ruysdael, who was a follower of his father and his more famous cousin, the other Jacob who was the son of

Isaack van Ruisdael Isaack van Ruisdael (;In isolation, ''van'' is pronounced . 1599 – buried 4 October 1677) was a Dutch Golden Age painter, brother to Salomon van Ruysdael and the father of the landscape painter Jacob van Ruisdael. Life Isaack van Ruisdael was ...

.Jacob Salomonsz. van Ruysdael
in the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie or RKD Since his works are stylistically similar, his works are sometimes confused with those of his father and cousin. In the summer of 1666 he moved to Amsterdam where he became a member of the

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community there in the same year. A record shows him as the widower of Geertruy Pieters when he became engaged to Annetje Jans Colyn in 1673. When he died he was buried in the Sint Anna cemetery in Haarlem. The St. Anna cemetery was all that remained of the old St. Anna cloister that had been seized by the Protestant Haarlem city governors after the Spanish occupation in 1581. By the time van Ruysdael died, the old St. Anna church had been replaced by the Nieuwe Kerk, which was completed in 1648 and still exists today. The cemetery presumably came into the hands of the Protestants at that time and was therefore not a Catholic burial ground, but a municipal burial ground. It was cleared of graves in 1706.''Meer dan Steen - Haarlemse gebedshuizen vroeger en nu'', Historical Werkgroup "Vereniging Haerlem"; editor: Leny Wijnands, 2007, p 21

References

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