Salomon van Ruysdael (c. 1602,

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– buried 3 November 1670,

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) was a

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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 achie ...

.Salomon van Ruysdael
in the

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Biography

According to

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

, Ruysdael 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

, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature 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 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 (; 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 born in Naarden in the Dutch Republic ...

, 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 achievem ...

, 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 bio ...

. Salomon joined the Haarlem Guild of St. Luke 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 Golden Age painter, mainly of landscapes and a printmaker who experimented with etching. Biography He was born in Amsterdam, where his Flemish father H ...

. He travelled from Haarlem to

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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

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