Salomon van Ruysdael (c. 1602,

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– buried 3 November 1670, Haarlem) was a Dutch Golden Age 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

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Biography

According to Arnold Houbraken he was the son of a woodworker who specialized in making fancy

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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, courtesy of the

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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

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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

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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. Life Isaack van Ruisdael was ...

, 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. Biography The contemporary bi ...

. Salomon joined the

in 1623 (as Salomon de Gooyer), and he became a follower of Jan Porcellis and

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. He travelled from Haarlem to

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, Alkmaar,

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, and

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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 (

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) *'' Ferry near Gorinchem'', 1646 *''Ferry Boat with cattle on the River Vecht near Nijenrode'', 1649 *'' Ferry on a River'', 1649River Landscape with Ferry
/ref> *'' Drawing the Eel'', circa 1650, Metropolitan Museum of Art. *''View of Deventer Seen from the North-West'', 1657

References

External links

Works and literature
on PubHist

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