# Two Watermills and an Open Sluice near Singraven [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [RUISDAEL, Jacob Isaackszon van]() - Date: 1651-1700 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 87 x 112 cm ## Commentary Jacob van Ruisdael is considered one of the greatest landscape painters in the history of art. Coming from a prestigious family of artists, he was trained by his father Isaack van Ruisdael and his uncle Salomon van Ruysdael. He belonged to the second generation of realistic landscape painters in 17th-century Holland, a generation which gave their landscapes great expressive force and a profound naturalism. He was a prolific artist who painted a wide variety of landscapes: the plains of the Dutch countryside, the dunes, seascapes, marshes, ponds, woods and hills. Some are in a proto-Romantic style in which the trees, hills, castles, churches, windmills and other elements acquire a heroic dimension. ## Related artworks - [A Marsh in a Forest at Dusk]() - [A Village in Winter]() - [An Extensive Landscape with a Ruined Castle and a Village Church]() - [Bentheim Castle \(detail\)]() - [Bentheim Castle]() - [Evening Landscape: A Windmill by a Stream]() - [Glade in a Wood]() - [Grainfields]() - [Huis Kostverloren on the Amstel River]() - [Landscape with a House in the Grove]() - [Landscape with a Traveller]() - [Landscape with a View of Haarlem \(detail\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()