Isaack van Ruisdael - View of Egmond aan Zee

Isaack van Ruisdael (;In isolation, ''van'' is pronounced . 1599 – buried 4 October 1677) was a

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painter, brother to Salomon van Ruysdael and the father of the landscape painter

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 achi ...

Life

Isaack van Ruisdael was born in Naarden in the

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in 1599. According to Arnold Houbraken he was the teacher of

Isaac Koene Isaac Koene (1637 in Haarlem – 1713 in Haarlem) was a Dutch Golden Age painter. According to Houbraken, he was a pupil of Isaack van Ruisdael, who collaborated with Barent Gael on landscapes (Koene) with figures (Gael).

, and, assuming Houbraken meant Isaack when he referred to the father of Jacob, he was a woodworker specialized in making fancy ebony frames for mirrors and paintings.Isaack van Ruisdael Biography
in ''De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen'' (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the

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Isaack sent his sons to learn Latin and medicine, and they both became landscape painters, specialized in ruis-daal, or trickling water through a dale, after their name. According to the

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(Dutch abbreviation, RKD), Houbraken confused the members of the family Ruysdael.Isaack van Ruisdael

, 2015. Retrieved 7 January 2016. Isaack was the brother of Salomon, and they both had sons named Jacob. Their father was also called Jacob, but his name was Gooyer, not Ruisdael. Isaack and Salomon changed their name from Gooyer to Ruisdael when they moved to Haarlem, where they both became landscape painters, though it is also possible that Isaack kept doing business in picture frames, since at the time they were painting, there was a high demand for painter's panels and frames in Haarlem. Ruisdael was buried in Haarlem on 4 October 1677.

Works

Very few works are known today by Isaack van Ruisdael, but he is known for landscapes in the same style as his son, and there is a view of

Egmond aan Zee Egmond aan Zee () is a village on the North Sea coast in the Dutch province of North Holland. It is a part of the municipality of Bergen, about 9 km west of Alkmaar. Egmond aan Zee was a separate municipality until 1978, when it merged wit ...

and a view of Muiderpoort in Weesp in the RKD.

References

External links

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