Ruisdael

Such general principles link the American landscape painter to his contemporaries Huet and Constable, and significantly, also to the Dutch master of landscape Jacob van Ruisdael, who had inspired many Romantic-era landscape artists (see Slive).

Even if the theme of winter has been superbly developed in Dutch paintings during the 17th century (van Suchtelen, 2001)--with Avercamp, van Guyen or van Ruisdael,--the Golden Age did not create winter landscapes.

Hals, Ruisdael, Cuyp, de Witte, van Goyen, Saenredam.

Dutch merchants smuggled goods into Japan wrapped in paper, sometimes bearing basic etchings of the Dutch landscape painting that had reached its zenith with Jacob van Ruisdael, Jan van Goyen, and Rembrandt van Rijn.

Slive (fine arts, Harvard U.) explores Dutch artist Jacob van Ruisdael's (1628/29-1682) depictions of windmills through his life, as well as his portrayals of water mills, as he was the first to make them the principal subject of a landscape.

That is why Italy was and continues to be the birthplace of painters; which explains why, apart from Breughel--not Van der Helle, mind, but the landscapist (there are two Breughels)--why, apart from Breughel (and Ruisdael too), we in the northern latitudes boast of so few genre painters of the highest order.

Ruisdael's Entrance to the Forest--there is no entrance anymore nor any commerce with the forest, its dimensions are its secret & it has no communications to make.

Among them are Rembrandt van Rijn, Frans Hals, Jacob van Ruisdael, and Gerard Terborch.

The second, painters, includes Jacob van Ruisdael, Samuel Palmer, Constable, Turner, Pierre Bonnard and Howard Hodgkin.

A Road Leading in to aWood - Jacob van Ruisdael. Madonna and Child with Saints John the Baptist and Jerome - Parmigianino

I am the idiot." We then became good friends, quickly discovering that we admired the same artists--Rembrandt, Jakob van Ruisdael, and Willem Kalf, whom he called, "the Rembrandt of still life painters."