Isaack van Ruisdael (1599-1677)

• Was a Dutch Golden Age painter.
• He was a brother to Salomon van Ruysdael and the father of the landscape painter Jacob van Ruisdael.
• Isaack van Ruisdael was born in Naarden in 1599.

• According to Arnold Houbraken he was the teacher of Isaac Koene.

• Isaack sent his sons to learn Latin and medicine, and they both became landscape painters, specialized in ruis-daal, or trickling water through a dale, after their name.

• Isaack and Salomon changed their name from Gooyer to Ruisdael when they moved to Haarlem, where they both became landscape painters.

• Ruisdael was buried in Haarlem on 4 October 1677.

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