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Jacob van Ruisdael
Netherlands Baroque artist
born 1628 - died 1692

Master of: Meindert Hobbema (1638-1709).
Influence on: Constant Troyon (1810-1865).

Baroque artist, often considered the greatest Dutch landscape painter. Jacob van Ruisdael was probably the pupil of his father, the frame maker and artist Isaak de Goyer, who later called himself Ruysdael.

None of Isaak's paintings have been identified with certainty, and it is impossible to determine the nature and extent of his influence on Ruisdael. Jacob van Ruisdael was the nephew of the noted painter Salomon van Ruysdael (this distinction in spelling occurs consistently in their own signatures).
The influence of Cornelis Vroom, another Haarlem landscapist, is often noticeable in his early works of the 1640s. The earliest dated pictures are of 1646. Two years later Ruisdael became a member of the Guild of St Luke in Haarlem. From 1650 to 1653 Jacob van Ruisdael traveled extensively in the Netherlands and the neighbouring parts of western Germany. Jacob van Ruisdael travelled to the Dutch/German border with his friend Nicolaes Berchem in the early 1650s, and one of the pictures that resulted was the celebrated Bentheim Castle (1653, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin), in which the castle heroically crowns the top of a steep, rugged hill, transformed by Ruisdael's imagination from the mild slope it is in actuality.
In about 1655 Jacob van Ruisdael settled in Amsterdam, of which he became a free citizen in 1659, and Jacob van Ruisdael lived there for the rest of his life (although he was buried in St Bavo's Cathedral in Haarlem). Jacob van Ruisdael evidently had a reasonably prosperous career, but little is known about his life and it was long thought Jacob van Ruisdael had died insane in the workhouse at Haarlem, a fate that is now known to have befallen his cousin and near-namesake Jacob van Ruysdael. There is still uncertainty, however, concerning the story, reported by Houbraken and supported by other tantalizing evidence, that Ruisdael practiced as a surgeon. It seems unlikely that Jacob van Ruisdael could have found the time for this (he is said to have taken a medical degree at Caen in Normandy in 1676, when Jacob van Ruisdael was in his late 40s), but other prolific Dutch painters, for example Steen (who ran a tavern), managed to pursue two careers. Meindert Hobbema was his most famous pupil and follower. - Jacob van Ruisdael oil painting abstract art oil paintings- Jacob van Ruisdael oil painting Netherlandish - Jacob van Ruisdael Bio, abstract art oil paintings by abstract oil painting supply of Netherlandish oil paintings abstract art.

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