Background
Van Ruysdael (1629, Haarlem – 1681, Haarlem), was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter who was the son of Salomon van Ruysdael and the cousin of the more famous Jacob Isaakszoon van Ruisdael.
Van Ruysdael (1629, Haarlem – 1681, Haarlem), was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter who was the son of Salomon van Ruysdael and the cousin of the more famous Jacob Isaakszoon van Ruisdael.
A record shows him as the widower of Geertruy Pieters when he became engaged to Annetje Jans Colyn in 1673. When he died he was buried in the Sint Anna cemetery in Haarlem. By the time van Ruysdael died, the old Saint Anna church had been replaced by the Nieuwe Kerk, which was completed in 1648 and still exists today.
lieutenant was cleared of graves in 1706.
In the summer of 1666 he moved to Amsterdam where he became a member of the Anabaptist community there in the same year.