Houbraken confused the members of the Ruysdael family. These were quite popular as a decoration on chests and picture frames, until the secret of their manufacture was discovered and widely copied. Houbraken wrote that Salomon invented a way of creating sculpted ornaments that when they were polished, looked like polished marble. Luke and signed his paintings, while Salomon signed them much less often and was not a member for several years. Jacob was registered with the Haarlem Guild of St. His father sent his sons Jacob and Salomon to learn Latin and medicine, and they both became landscape painters, specializing in ruis-daal, or trickling water through a dale, after their name. He was the uncle of Jacob van Ruisdael.Īccording to Arnold Houbraken he was the son of a woodworker who specialized in making fancy ebony frames for mirrors and paintings. 1602, Naarden – buried 3 November 1670, Haarlem) was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter.
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