Artist: In the School of Salomon Van Ruysdael, Dutch

Title: Dutch Harbor Scene 19th Century

Medium: Oil on Board

Size: 12" x 14.5" Unframed; 17" x 20" Framed

Price: $5,800

A beautifully executed oil painting from the Dutch Golden Age attributed to Salamon Van Ruysdael. The prominence of a beautiful cerulean blue sky was typical of landscapes from that period. The tonal treatment of the boats allows them to be shaped in the foreground shadow without detracting from the sky. The marine scape is finished in an ornate gilt frame.

The Haarlem landscapist artist, Salomon van Ruysdael, who was born in Naarden, was the youngest of four sons and one daughter born to Jacob Jansz de Gooyer, a Mennonite joiner from Blaricum. Salomon, along with his brother Isaack and his nephew, Jacob van Ruisdael, established themselves as artists in Haarlem. Salomon married Maycke Willemsdr Buyse sometime before 1627; the couple had four children, one of whom, Jacob Salomonsz (1629/1630–1681), also became a painter. Ruysdael joined the Saint Luke’s Guild in 1623, and not long thereafter produced his earliest dated painting, from 1626. He remained active in the guild throughout his career. He was a noted tonalist landscapist working in the Dutch Golden Age of painting in a realist style.