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Jacob van Ruisdael

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The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/March 10, 2016 by Brianboulton (talk) 17:39, 21 February 2016 (UTC)



Jacob van Ruisdael (c. 1629 – 1682) was a Dutch painter, draughtsman, and etcher. He is generally considered the pre-eminent landscape painter of the Dutch Golden Age, a period of great wealth and cultural achievement when Dutch painting became highly popular. Ruisdael was prolific and versatile, and depicted a wide variety of landscape subjects, including Dutch countryside scenes, city panoramas, seascapes, and Scandinavian waterfalls. In most of his works the sky takes up two thirds of the canvas. There is difficulty in attributing Ruisdael's work, which has not been helped by the fact that three members of his family were also landscape painters, most notably his uncle Salomon van Ruysdael. Ruisdael shaped landscape painting traditions worldwide, from the English Romantics to the Barbizon School in France, and the Hudson River School in the US, and influenced generations of Dutch landscape artists.
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 * Main editors: Edwininlondon
 * Promoted: Feb 5 2016
 * Reasons for nomination: Ruisdael died on March 10. This would be my first TFA. It has similar articles in 32 languages.
 * Support as nominator. Edwininlondon (talk) 22:23, 5 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Support educational and interesting. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 02:22, 17 February 2016 (UTC)