Jacob Salomonsz. van Ruysdael

Old painting of the 17th-century Dutch School Circle of Jacob Salomonsz. van Ruysdael "A frozen river near a village, with golfers and skaters" Oil on panel, 56.5 x 76 cm, framed Jacob Salomonsz. van Ruysdael (1629, Haarlem - 1681, Haarlem), was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter, son of Salomon van Ruysdael and cousin of the more famous Jacob Isaakszoon van Ruisdael. Biography The contemporary biographer Arnold Houbraken confused the various members of the Ruisdael family and hypothesized that all their landscapes were the work of the two brothers Jacob and Salomon, when in reality there were four painters; the brothers Isaack and Salomon and their two sons who confusingly both called themselves Jacob and lived in the same period. According to the Netherlands Institute for Art History (Dutch abbreviation, RKD), this Jacob was the son of Salomon van Ruysdael, who was a follower of his father and his more famous cousin, the other Jacob who was the son of Isaack van Ruisdael. Since his works are stylistically similar, his works are sometimes confused with those of his father and cousin. In the summer of 1666 he moved to Amsterdam where he became a member of the Anabaptist community in the same year. A widower of Geertruy Pieters when he got engaged to Annetje Jans Colyn in 1673. Upon his death, he was buried in the Sint Anna cemetery in Haarlem. The cemetery of Sant'Anna was all that remained of the old cloister of Sant'Anna that had been seized by the rulers of the Protestant city of Haarlem after the Spanish occupation in 1581. At the time of Van Ruysdael's death, the old church of Sant'Anna had been replaced by the Nieuwe Kerk, which was completed in 1648 and still exists today. The cemetery presumably came into the hands of the Protestants at that time and was therefore not a Catholic cemetery, but a municipal cemetery. It was cleared of tombs in 1706.