Background
Isaack van Ruisdael was born in Naarden in the Dutch Republic in 1599.
Isaack van Ruisdael was born in Naarden in the Dutch Republic in 1599.
Isaack was the brother of Salomon, and they both had sons named Jacob. Their father was also called Jacob, but his name was Gooyer, not Ruisdael. Isaack and Salomon changed their name from Gooyer to Ruisdael when they moved to Haarlem, where they both became landscape painters, though it is also possible that Isaack kept doing business in picture frames, since at the time they were painting, there was a high demand for painter"s panels and frames in Haarlem.
Ruisdael was buried in Haarlem on 4 October 1677.
According to the Netherlands Institute for Art History (Dutch transcript, RKD), Houbraken confused the members of the family Ruysdael.