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Description: | Signed: yes Description: Signed works, such as this one, by Jacob Koninck are rare. The elder, and less well known brother of the successful seventeenth century Dutch painter, Philips Koninck, Jacob's work was inspired by that of the landscape painter Jacob van Ruisdael, and in turn can be seen to have influenced the later work of Constable. This painting is a strangely forbidding woodland scene. The trees dominate the composition, the figures are isolated and overshadowed. The painting calls to mind the sombre nature of van Ruisdael's celebrated Jewish Cemetery, of 1657 (Detroit Institute of Arts). | Subjects: | landscape; figure; animal (horse) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Koninck, Jacob, I (Dutch painter, printmaker, ca.1616-1708) Æ Previously attributed to Johnson, Thomas (English painter, active 17th century) Previously attributed to Koninck, Philips de (Dutch painter and draftsman, 1619-1688) | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8414... | Go to resource |
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