Ludolf Bakhuizen Ships on the Zuiderzee before the Fort of Naarden Painting ID:: 72118 new23/Ludolf Bakhuizen-735576.jpg
Ships on the Zuiderzee before the Fort of Naarden Ships on the Zuiderzee before the Fort of Naarden
Oil on oak, 1660, 37.5 x 48.4 cm (14 3/4 x 19 inches)
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Ludolf Bakhuizen Ships on the Zuiderzee before the Fort of Naarden Painting ID:: 73721 new24/Ludolf Bakhuizen-463365.jpg
Ships on the Zuiderzee before the Fort of Naarden Oil on oak, 1660, 37.5 x 48.4 cm (14 3/4 x 19 inches)
Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne
Date 1660
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Ludolf Bakhuizen A Dutch Yacht Before the Wind in a Harbour Painting ID:: 74763 new24/Ludolf Bakhuizen-793886.jpg
A Dutch Yacht Before the Wind in a Harbour Oil on canvas
855 x 1030 mm
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Ludolf Bakhuizen A Dutch Yacht Before the Wind in a Harbour Painting ID:: 76258 new24/Ludolf Bakhuizen-353478.jpg
A Dutch Yacht Before the Wind in a Harbour Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 855 x 1030 mm
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Ludolf Bakhuizen View of Amsterdam with Ships on the Ij Painting ID:: 78997 new24/Ludolf Bakhuizen-563589.jpg
View of Amsterdam with Ships on the Ij 1666(1666)
Medium Oil on canvas
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Ludolf Bakhuizen Dutch Vessels on the Sea at Amsterdam Painting ID:: 82700 new24/Ludolf Bakhuizen-456887.jpg
Dutch Vessels on the Sea at Amsterdam 1708(1708)
Medium Oil on canvas
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(December 28, 1630 - November 17, 1708) was a German-born Dutch Golden Age painter who was the leading Dutch painter of maritime subjects after the two Willem van de Veldes (father and son) left for England in 1672.
He was born in Emden, East Frisia, and came to Amsterdam in about 1650, working as a merchant's clerk and a calligrapher. He discovered so strong a genius for painting that he relinquished the business and devoted himself to art from the late 1650s, initially in pen drawings. He studied first under Allart van Everdingen and then under Hendrik Dubbels, two eminent masters of the time, and soon became celebrated for his sea-pieces, which often had rough seas.
He was an ardent student of nature, and frequently exposed himself on the sea in an open boat in order to study the effects of storms. His compositions, which are numerous, are nearly all variations of one subject, the sea, and in a style peculiarly his own, marked by intense realism or faithful imitation of nature. In his later years Bakhuizen employed his skills in etching; he also painted a few examples each of several other genres of painting, such as portraits, landscapes and genre paintings.