Ruisdael
Americannoun
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Jacob van 1628?–82, Dutch painter.
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his uncle Salomon van 1601?–70, Dutch painter.
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Example Sentences
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Irwin compares the scene to 17th century Dutch landscape paintings, like those by Jacob van Ruisdael or Jan van Goyen.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 12, 2022
Next year's exhibition, Constable: The Making of a Master, will put his works alongside those of landscape Old Masters including Jacob van Ruisdael and Claude Lorrain.
From BBC • Nov. 26, 2013
The dramatic sweep of a winter landscape by Ruisdael attracted the Van Otterloos in 2004, when the Boston collector Charles Cunningham decided to part with his pictures.
From New York Times • Apr. 22, 2011
In 1647, the great Jacob Ruisdael gazed at dunes beyond a road and a few cottages.
From New York Times • Mar. 12, 2010
Ruskin so belaboured the poor ancients about their landscapes that when I was a youth he had taught me to believe that Claude and Ruisdael were mere duffers.
From Interludes being Two Essays, a Story, and Some Verses by Smith, Horace
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