Salomon van Ruysdael

View of Deventer Seen from the North-West by Salomon van Ruysdael 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.

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.

Biography According to Arnold Houbraken, Ruysdael was the son of a woodworker who specialized in making fancy ebony frames for mirrors and paintings. 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. Drawing the Eel, circa 1650, Metropolitan Museum of Art. View of Deventer Seen from the North-West, 1657 The sale of fish, 1647Skaters on a canal near the Plomptoren in Utrecht, circa 1655-1660.

His paintings have also maintained a sustained presence on the international art market, with works regularly appearing at major auction houses and achieving strong results, reflecting continued scholarly and collector interest in Dutch Golden Age landscape painting.