Salomon van ruisdael biography of william shakespeare
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Salomon van ruisdael biography of william shakespeare
Salomon van Ruysdael
Dutch painter (1602–1670)
Salomon van Ruysdael (c. 1602, Naarden – buried 3 November 1670, Haarlem) was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter.
He was the uncle of Jacob van Ruisdael.[1]
Biography
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.[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