Posy of Flowers, with a Beetle, on a Stone LedgePICTORIALMany of us are familiar with titans of the Dutch Golden Age like ...

Salomon van Ruysdael was a Dutch artist known for his landscape painting during the Dutch Golden Age. He focused on landscapes and river scenes. Born in 1602 in Naarden, he spent much of his life in ...

only that he came to art at an early age and embarked on a successful career as a still life painter. At some point, he adopted the name Torrentius, translating the Dutch word “beeck” (brook ...