Salomon van Ruysdael was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter.
Background
According to Arnold Houbraken he was the son of a woodworker specialized in making fancy ebony frames for mirrors and paintings. His father sent his sons Jacob and Salomon to learn Latin and medicine, and they both became landscape painters, specialized in ruis-daal, or trickling water through a dale, after their name.
Career
He was the uncle of Jacob van Ruisdael. Jacob was registered with the Haarlem Guild of Saint Luke and signed his paintings, while Salomon signed them much less often and was not a member for several years. Houbraken wrote that Salomon invented a way of creating sculpted ornaments that when they were polished, looked like polished marble.
These were quite popular as a decoration on chests and picture frames, until the secret of their manufacture was discovered and widely copied. van Ruysdael.
He travelled from Haarlem to Leiden, Utrecht, Amersfoort, Alkmaar, Rhenen, and Dordrecht, painting landscapes and stately homes. Of the four painters, Jacob Isaakszoon is the most famous today.
Membership
Haarlem Guild of Saint Luke]
Houbraken confused the members of the Ruysdael family.