Salomon van Ruysdael (c. 1602,
Naarden
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– buried 3 November 1670,
Haarlem
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) was a
Dutch Golden Age
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landscape painter. He was the uncle of
Jacob 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 ach ...
.
[Salomon van Ruysdael]
in the RKD
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Biography
According to
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.
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he was the son of a woodworker who specialized in making fancy
ebony
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frames for mirrors and paintings.
[Jakob Ruisdaal biography]
in ''De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen'' (1718) by 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.
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Houbraken was sent first to learn ''threadtwisting'' (Twyndraat) fr ...
, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature
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His father sent his sons Jacob and Salomon to learn Latin and medicine, and they both became landscape painters, specializing in ''ruis-daal'', or trickling water through a dale, after their name.
[ Jacob was registered with the ]Haarlem Guild of St. Luke
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and signed his paintings, while Salomon signed them much less often and was not a member for several years.[ Houbraken wrote that Salomon invented a way of creating sculpted ornaments that when they were polished, looked like polished marble.][ These were quite popular as a decoration on chests and picture frames, until the secret of their manufacture was discovered and widely copied.][
Houbraken confused the members of the Ruysdael family. According to the ]Netherlands Institute for Art History
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(Dutch abbreviation, RKD), Salomon was the brother 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.
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, who before they moved to Haarlem, were called Gooyer or Gooier and they were sons of Jacob van Gooyer the Elder, who was a furniture and frame maker in Naarden. Both sons had sons they named after their father. Thus Salomon was the uncle, not the brother of 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 ach ...
, and he was the father of Jacob Salomonsz van Ruysdael
Jacob Salomonsz. van Ruysdael (1629, Haarlem – 1681, Haarlem), was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter who was the son of Salomon van Ruysdael and the cousin of the more famous Jacob Isaakszoon van Ruisdael.
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.[ Salomon joined the ]Haarlem Guild of St. Luke
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in 1623 (as Salomon de Gooyer), and he became a follower of Jan Porcellis and Esaias van de Velde
Esaias van de Velde (17 May 1587 (baptized) – 18 November 1630 (buried)
) was a Dutch landscape painter.
Biography
He was born in Amsterdam, where his Flemish father Hans had fled as a Protestant in 1585. He probably studied under his fath ...
.[ He travelled from Haarlem to ]Leiden
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, Utrecht
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, Amersfoort
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, Alkmaar
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, Rhenen
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, and Dordrecht
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, painting landscapes and stately homes. Of the four painters, Jacob Isaakszoon is the most famous today.
Works
Salomon was known for his landscapes and river scenes, and there are a few fish still life paintings known.[
*'' River Landscape'', 1642 (]Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg
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)
*''Ferry near Gorinchem
''Ferry near Gorinchem'' is a mid 17th century painting by Dutch artist Salomon van Ruysdael. Done in oil on canvas, the work depicts a riverside embankment near Gorinchem in the Netherlands; in addition, the painting also depicts the prominent St ...
'', 1646
*''Ferry Boat with cattle on the River Vecht near Nijenrode'', 1649
*'' Ferry on a River'', 1649River Landscape with Ferry
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*'' Drawing the Eel'', circa 1650, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
*''View of Deventer Seen from the North-West'', 1657
References
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External links
Works and literature
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1600s births
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Dutch Golden Age painters
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Painters from Haarlem
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