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Also Known As Jacob van Ruysdael • Jacob Isaakszoon van Ruisdael
Born 1628 or 1629 • Haarlem • Netherlands
Buried March 14, 1682
Movement / Style Baroque art and architecture

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Ruisdael, Jacob van: Waterfall with a Low Wooded Hill
Ruisdael, Jacob van: Waterfall with Bentheim Castle Beyond
Ruisdael, Jacob van: Wheat Fields
Plate 14: “Waterfall,” oil painting by Jacob van Ruisdael, c. 1670? In the Uffizi, Florence. 52.3 x 61.7 cm.
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Cuyp, Aelbert: The Maas at Dordecht
Aelbert Cuyp
Dutch painter
Neer, Aert van der: View of the River in Winter
Aert van der Neer
Dutch painter
Ruysdael, Salomon van: Drawing the Eel
Salomon van Ruysdael
Dutch painter
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Meindert Hobbema
Dutch painter
Both, Jan: Italianate Landscape with Travellers on a Road
Jan Both
Dutch painter
Wouwerman, Philips: landscape with hawkers
Philips Wouwerman
Dutch painter
Koninck, Philips: View over a Flat Landscape
Philips Koninck
Dutch painter
Peter Paul Rubens: self-portrait
Peter Paul Rubens
Flemish artist
Nicolas Poussin: Adoration of the Golden Calf
Nicolas Poussin
French painter
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David Teniers, the Younger
Flemish painter
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Salvator Rosa
Italian painter
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Domenico Fetti
Italian painter
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Gaspard Dughet
French painter
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David Teniers, the Elder
Flemish painter
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Herman de Limbourg
Flemish artist
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Jean de Limbourg
Flemish artist
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Paul de Limbourg
Flemish artist
Rembrandt: Self-Portrait
Rembrandt
Dutch artist
Vincent van Gogh: Self-Portrait
Vincent van Gogh
Dutch painter
Mondrian, photograph by Arnold Newman, 1942.
Piet Mondrian
Dutch painter

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