Salomon van Ruysdael

Salomon van Ruysdael (c. 1602, Naarden – buried 3 November 1670, Haarlem) was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter.

[1] According to Arnold Houbraken, Ruysdael was the son of a woodworker who specialized in making fancy ebony frames for mirrors and paintings.

[2] His father sent his sons, Jacob and Salomon, to learn Latin and medicine, and they both became landscape painters, specializing in ruis-daal, or trickling water through a dale, after their name.

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.

[1] He travelled from Haarlem to Leiden, Utrecht, Amersfoort, Alkmaar, Rhenen, and Dordrecht, painting landscapes and stately homes.

View of Deventer Seen from the North-West by Salomon van Ruysdael (1657) Oil on oak, 52 x 76 cm. National Gallery, London
River Landscape with Ferry by Salomon van Ruysdael (1649) Oil on canvas, 101.5 x 134.8 cm. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Landscape with Cornfields by Salomon van Ruysdael. Oil on canvas, 1638, Hallwyl Museum .