DOI chapter:
Scholars and Imitators of Jacob Ruysdael
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OF JACOB RUYSDAEL.
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vegetation, accompanied, too frequently, by a predominant
blackness in the shadows, and their execution is accomplished
by a crispness of touch, which produces a sparkling effect
throughout. Allowing for these differences, there is in the
wild Norwegian views, and coast scenes, which they severally
represented, a great similarity, both in the compositions, forms
of objects, and general effect; these approximations could
not have been the result of chance, and although their mutual
ages preclude the probability of scholarship, it does by no
means that of rivalry; and to this feeling in Everdingen may
be attributed, with some probability, the affinity observable
in his works to those by Ruysdael.
He died in 1675.
Francis Decker. This painter was born at Haarlem, in
1684; and, judging from the style which characterises his
works, he appears to have taken Ruysdael and Hobbema for
his models. His pictures usually represent cottages of a most
picturesque appearance, situate among trees on the banks
of rivers; they are also distinguished by the freedom and
smartness of handling, by which are detailed, with admirable
precision, the bricks and decayed timber of the buildings,
and the foliages of his trees, particularly that of the elder,
while in blossom.
In addition to the preceding, the names of John Vander
Hagen, Abraham Verboom, and Maans, may be quoted as
analogous painters.
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vegetation, accompanied, too frequently, by a predominant
blackness in the shadows, and their execution is accomplished
by a crispness of touch, which produces a sparkling effect
throughout. Allowing for these differences, there is in the
wild Norwegian views, and coast scenes, which they severally
represented, a great similarity, both in the compositions, forms
of objects, and general effect; these approximations could
not have been the result of chance, and although their mutual
ages preclude the probability of scholarship, it does by no
means that of rivalry; and to this feeling in Everdingen may
be attributed, with some probability, the affinity observable
in his works to those by Ruysdael.
He died in 1675.
Francis Decker. This painter was born at Haarlem, in
1684; and, judging from the style which characterises his
works, he appears to have taken Ruysdael and Hobbema for
his models. His pictures usually represent cottages of a most
picturesque appearance, situate among trees on the banks
of rivers; they are also distinguished by the freedom and
smartness of handling, by which are detailed, with admirable
precision, the bricks and decayed timber of the buildings,
and the foliages of his trees, particularly that of the elder,
while in blossom.
In addition to the preceding, the names of John Vander
Hagen, Abraham Verboom, and Maans, may be quoted as
analogous painters.