Old Dutch School Blackboard From The 17th Century

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 landscape painter of the Golden Age, son of Salomon van Ruysdael and cousin of the most famous Jacob Isaakszoon van Ruisdael. Biography Contemporary biographer Arnold Houbraken confused the different members of the Ruisdael family and hypothesized that all of their landscapes were the work of the two brothers Jacob and Solomon, when in fact there were four painters; brothers Isaack and Solomon and their two sons who both confusedly named Jacob and lived around the same time. According to the Dutch Institute for the History of Art (Dutch abbreviation, RKD), this Jacob was the son of Salomon van Ruysdael, who was a disciple of his father and his more famous cousin, the other Jacob who was the son of Isaac van Ruisdael. Because 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 the same year. widower of Geertruy Pieters during his fiancée to Annetje Jans Colyn in 1673. Upon his death he was buried in the Sint Anna cemetery in Haarlem. The Sainte-Anne cemetery was all that remained of the old Sainte-Anne cloister which 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 At the time of Van Ruysdael's death, the Sant'Anna's old church had been replaced by the Nieuwe Kerk, which was completed in 1648 and still stands today. The cemetery would have been in Protestant hands at that time and was therefore not a Catholic cemetery, but a municipal cemetery. He was cleared of the graves in 1706.