Jacob Isaackszoon van Ruisdael (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈjaːkɔp fɑn ˈrœyzdaːl] ⓘ; c. 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 achievement when Dutch painting became highly popular.

Jacob van Ruisdael (born 1628/29, Haarlem, Netherlands—died March 10, 1682, Amsterdam) was a Baroque artist often regarded as one of the greatest Dutch landscape painters.

Jacob van Ruisdael’s earliest works, dated 1646, were made when he was only seventeen or eighteen. He entered the Haarlem Saint Luke’s Guild in 1648. It is not known who his early …

Jacob Isaackszoon van Ruisdael (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈjaːkɔp fɑn ˈrœyzdaːl] ( listen); c. 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 achievement when Dutch painting became highly popular.

Jacob van Ruisdael was one of the most famous landscape painters of 17th-century Holland, and the foremost exponent of the classical phase of Dutch landscape painting. He was able to create a poetic and sometimes brooding or tragic mood in his landscapes.

Jacob van Ruisdael, the foremost Dutch landscape artist of the late 17th century, mastered a wide variety of subjects—from waterfalls to dunes to woodlands to sweeping panoramas. Raised in Haarlem, the fabled birthplace of Northern landscape painting, he likely trained with his uncle Salomon van Ruysdael in the 1640s and finished his ...

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Jacob Isaacksz van Ruisdael was the most versatile 17th-century Dutch landscape painter. His landscapes are characterized by an exceptional diversity of subjects and astonishing craftsmanship.

Jan 18, 2024 · Ruisdael's dramatic, naturalistic rendering of landscapes and his emotional use of color support his reputation as the principal Dutch landscape painter in the second half of the 1600s.

May 29, 2018 · The Dutch landscape painter Jacob van Ruisdael (c. 1628-1682) raised to the highest level of quality and variety the painting of landscapes based on the observation of the visible world.