Salomon van Ruysdael

Salomon van Ruysdael (c. 1602,

According to Arnold Houbraken he 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.^[2] 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.^[2] Houbraken wrote that Salomon invented a way of creating sculpted ornaments that when they were polished, looked like polished marble.^[2] These were quite popular as a decoration on chests and picture frames, until the secret of their manufacture was discovered and widely copied.^[2]

Houbraken confused the members of the Ruysdael family. According to the

Salomon was known for his landscapes and river scenes, and there are a few fish still life paintings known.[1]

• River Landscape, 1642 (Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg)
• Ferry near Gorinchem, 1646
• Ferry Boat with cattle on the River Vecht near Nijenrode, 1649
• Ferry on a River, 1649^[3]
• Drawing the Eel, circa 1650, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
• View of Deventer Seen from the North-West, 1657

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References

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