DOI chapter:
Scholars and Imitators of Jacob Ruysdael
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SCHOLARS AND IMITATORS
Isaac Koene has the reputation of having been a scholar
of Jacob Ruysdael, whose style and manner he imitated at
a very humble distance; his pictures, therefore, are of little
estimation. The figures which animate them are usually
inserted by Barent Gael.
He was born at Haarlem in 1650, and died in 1713.
Van Kessel. Although several painters of this name are
noticed by biographers, this identical artist is omitted; and
the writer is therefore compelled to exercise conjecture in
the absence of information. In this dilemma, a comparison
between their several productions fully authorises a supposition,
that Van Kessel was a pupil of Ruysdael’s, for many of his
pictures bear so close an affinity to that master’s, as to leave
little doubt of the correctness of such an opinion.
J. De Vries. This painter, like the preceding artist, has
hitherto remained unnoticed by writers; and it is only from
his works, on which his name is usually found, that we learn
of his having once existed ; and from the same source the
inquirer may discern, that he was a close imitator (if not a
scholar) of Ruysdael. He generally represented woody scenes ;
and these, both in their predominating hue, as well as in the
forms of objects, are strikingly like Ruysdael’s ; with these
advantages, however, the real master is discovered by the
poverty of the colouring, and the feebleness of the handling.
Albert Van Everbingen. This excellent painter was
born at Alkmaar, in 1621, and successively became the pupil
of Roland Savery, and Peter Molyn; but to the latter master
he was most indebted for information, as is evident in the
colouring and handling peculiar to his works, the one being
of a clear olive hue in the herbage and foliage of the trees;
and the other, although free, is soft and melting; and in these
respects they differ from the pictures by Ruysdael, whose
colouring has a tendency to fresh and lively tints in the
SCHOLARS AND IMITATORS
Isaac Koene has the reputation of having been a scholar
of Jacob Ruysdael, whose style and manner he imitated at
a very humble distance; his pictures, therefore, are of little
estimation. The figures which animate them are usually
inserted by Barent Gael.
He was born at Haarlem in 1650, and died in 1713.
Van Kessel. Although several painters of this name are
noticed by biographers, this identical artist is omitted; and
the writer is therefore compelled to exercise conjecture in
the absence of information. In this dilemma, a comparison
between their several productions fully authorises a supposition,
that Van Kessel was a pupil of Ruysdael’s, for many of his
pictures bear so close an affinity to that master’s, as to leave
little doubt of the correctness of such an opinion.
J. De Vries. This painter, like the preceding artist, has
hitherto remained unnoticed by writers; and it is only from
his works, on which his name is usually found, that we learn
of his having once existed ; and from the same source the
inquirer may discern, that he was a close imitator (if not a
scholar) of Ruysdael. He generally represented woody scenes ;
and these, both in their predominating hue, as well as in the
forms of objects, are strikingly like Ruysdael’s ; with these
advantages, however, the real master is discovered by the
poverty of the colouring, and the feebleness of the handling.
Albert Van Everbingen. This excellent painter was
born at Alkmaar, in 1621, and successively became the pupil
of Roland Savery, and Peter Molyn; but to the latter master
he was most indebted for information, as is evident in the
colouring and handling peculiar to his works, the one being
of a clear olive hue in the herbage and foliage of the trees;
and the other, although free, is soft and melting; and in these
respects they differ from the pictures by Ruysdael, whose
colouring has a tendency to fresh and lively tints in the