The New Student's Reference Work/Ruysdael, Jakob

Ruysdael (rois′däl), Jakob, the greatest Dutch painter of landscape, was born at Haarlem about 1625. He loved to paint forest-glades with oak-trees, sleeping pools beneath groups of trees, with an old picturesque building, a mill or a ruined temple or a glimpse of a distant town; a waterfall with rugged rocks; and coast-scenes where earth and water meet. He died in Haarlem’s almshouse on March 14, 1682.