Salomon van Ruysdael

Salomon van Ruysdael, original name Salomon de Goyer (born c. 1600, Naarden, United Provinces [Netherlands]—buried November 1, 1670, Haarlem)
Salomon van Ruysdael was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter. He was the uncle of Jacob van Ruisdael. Wikipedia
Born: 1602, Naarden, Netherlands
Died: November 3, 1670, Haarlem, Netherlands
Nephews: Jacob van Ruisdael
Children: Jacob Salomonsz van Ruysdael
Siblings: Isaack van Ruisdael
Periods: Baroque, Dutch Golden Age
"According to Arnold Houbraken he was the son of a woodworker specialized in making fancy ebony frames for mirrors and paintings. His father sent his sons Jacob and Salomon to learn Latin and medicine, and they both became landscape painters, specialized 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 Netherlands Institute for Art History (Dutch abbreviation, RKD), Salomon was the brother of Isaack van Ruisdael, 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, and he was the father of Jacob Salomonsz. van Ruysdael. 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. He travelled from Haarlem to Leiden, Utrecht, Amersfoort, Alkmaar, Rhenen, and Dordrecht, painting landscapes and stately homes. Of the four painters, Jacob Isaakszoon is the most famous today."
More Salomon van Ruysdael Paintings

 

A River Landscape with Travellers and Herders on a Path, a Church beyond

Sailboats on the Wijkermeer

River Landscape with a Church in the Distance

A Dune landscape

River scene with ferry boat

A Ferry on a River

River landscape with fishermen setting out their nets, a ferry beyond

An estuary scene with a kaag close-hauled in a light breeze

A river view with the town of Weesp

An estuary scene with a kaag running before light breeze, and others similar beyond

A River Landscape with Boatbuilders

An Estuary Scene with Light Shipping

The halt at the inn

An Estuary Scene with a view of Haarlem beyond

A View of Alkmaar with the Sint Laurenskerk from the North

Sailboats and a rowboat in coastal waters

A View of Rhenen seen from the West

An extensive landscape with cattle and their herdsmen following a partly flooded road

An estuary scene with smalschips on a broad reach before a gentle breeze

Shipping in a Choppy Sea

Landscape with Cornfields

A river landscape with a ferry boat and a distant view of Deventer

Winter Landscape with a Boy on skates pushing a Sled

A River Landscape with a Ferry Boat