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
That’s what 17th-century Dutch landscapes by the likes of Aelbert Cuyp, Jacob van Ruisdael and Paulus Potter are mostly made of.
From New York Times ● May 23, 2013
Meanwhile, Jan van Kessel’s “Stone Bridge Near a Village on a Stormy Day” combines the dense foliage of a Ruisdael with some Hokusai-like atmospherics.
From New York Times ● Jan. 19, 2012
In the same spirit, landscape-painters, and particularly Ruisdael, have often painted very insignificant country scenes, which produce the same effect even more agreeably.
From The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Schopenhauer, Arthur
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