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Examples

  • "Ruysdael" always pointed out to visitors ... and after the war it will all be going on again.

    The Dark Forest Hugh Walpole 1912

  • There _is_, you know, that world somewhere with the Rev. Someone lecturing on Fools and "the class 'Ruysdael' costing in the neighbourhood of $100."

    The Dark Forest Hugh Walpole 1912

  • In the masterworks of Dutch painters such as Ruysdael and Hobbema, and in Rubens's panoramic views of the Flemish countryside, we are invited to watch as the artist records the time of the day, the quality of the weather, the lay of the land -- and we are left to judge the psychological effect of what we see.

    The New Republic - All Feed 2010

  • In the masterworks of Dutch painters such as Ruysdael and Hobbema, and in Rubens's panoramic views of the Flemish countryside, we are invited to watch as the artist records the time of the day, the quality of the weather, the lay of the land -- and we are left to judge the psychological effect of what we see.

    The New Republic - All Feed needs-info 2010

  • Salomon van Ruysdael's "River Landscape With a Ferry" 1649 is an especially fine example of Dutch landscape painting, whose atmospheric qualities influenced later artists, from John Constable to Vincent van Gogh.

    Collecting as a Fine Art Jonathan Lopez 2011

  • The artists here — among them Jan ­Porcellis, Ludolf Backhuysen, Bonaventura Peeters, Simon de Vlieger and Jacob van Ruisdael (nephew of the celebrated landscapist, Salomon van ­Ruysdael) — are not names you come across every day.

    Painting the High Seas Barrymore Lawrence Scherer 2009

  • Ruysdael sum up Holland's contribution to the art of the world, and that this chapter of its history, like the chapters which deal with its maritime supremacy, its industrial greatness, and its struggles for liberty, is closed for ever.

    Dutch Life in Town and Country P. M. Hough

  • Grotius, De Ruyter, Erasmus, Ruysdael, Daendels, Van Speijk, Tromp afford proof of the pertinacity, courage, and devotion of Netherland's sons in the great movements which have sprung from her soil.

    Dutch Life in Town and Country P. M. Hough

  • Van der Velde had quitted his sea-pieces, or Ruysdael his waterfalls, or

    The Mind of the Artist Thoughts and Sayings of Painters and Sculptors on Their Art Cicely Margaret Powell [Editor] Binyon

  • No painter could reproduce on canvas the sublime scenery sketched in its prologue; more gloomy than the pictures of Ruysdael, more sombre than those of Salvator

    The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

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