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Roelof Jansz van Vries
The Pigeon House, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Born	1631 Haarlem
Died	1681/1701 Amsterdam
Nationality	Dutch
Known for	Painting, drawing
Movement	Dutch Golden Age
Spouse	Marytje Adriaens

Roelof Jansz van Vries or Roelof van Vries (1631, Haarlem – 1681/1701, Amsterdam) was a Dutch painter of the Dutch Golden Age. Known for his landscapes, his works can be seen at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Rijksmuseum, the National Gallery, etc.

Biography

Roelof van Vries was born in 1631 in Haarlem (Netherlands) where he later studied. He is possibly the son of Jacob Roelofsz de Vries(who was 18 years old in December 1626 in Haarlem). The date of his first known work shows that he became a painter around 1652 (he is often considered to be the same person then Roelandt van Vries who became a member of the Guild of Saint Luke of Leiden in 1653).

He was enrolled in the Guild of Saint Luke of Haarlem in 1657. We find him in Amsterdam in 1659, from where he never moved. On October 11, 1659, he published the banns of his marriage with Marytje Adriaens, from Haarlem, and married her in Amsterdam in 1659, at the age of 28. His wedding witness is the painter Reynier Hals, son of the painter Frans Hals.

He died in Amsterdam between 1681 and 1701. The precise date of his death is not known. We only know that the register of the Guild of Saint Luke of Amsterdam, kept by Vincent van der Vinne, mentions him as dead in 1702.

His work

Stylistically close to Jacob van Ruisdael, he also shows influences from Gillis Rombouts and Cornelis Decker, which all worked in Haarlem. Van Vries concentrated on landscapes, in which the figures often came from the hands of other painters such as Adriaen van de Velde and Johannes Lingelbach.

Close to the landscape painter Jacob Van Ruisdael, Van Vries was very early appreciated in France and the painter Charles Le Brun had one of his works.

Roelof van Vries is often recognized by his way of very carefully painting walls and foliage, adorning them with small golden dots, such as Meindert Hobbema and Klaes Molenaer.

Van Vries rubbed shoulders with the painters Egbert van Heemskerk II, Leendert de Laeff, Pieter Nijs, Jan Theunisz Blanckerhoff, Johan Hackaert and Aernout van der Neer

Works

The Pigeon House, New York City, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Landscape with a Falconer, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
View of a village, National Gallery, London
Village on the banks of a river, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia.
A farm and its outbuildings in the dunes, Bredius Museum, The Hague.
Peasant huts in a wood, Städel Museum, Frankfurt
Wooded landscape with a river, museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
Landscape with a towerDulwich Picture Gallery, London
A tower by a river, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
River in a Village, Holburne Museum, Somerset
Travelers at the Edge of a Village, Birmingham Museums Trust, Birmingham
A Path leading through a Wood with Figures, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Boat near a ruin, Collection Dumez, Château de Compiègne.
Construction of a tower by a canal, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm.
Landscape with Ruins and a River, Bowes Museum, Durham .
Travelers among ruins, King John's Palace Museum III, Warsaw.
Ruin of a castle, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm.

Gallery

Landscape with a falconer, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
A View of a Village, National Gallery, London.
Village by a river, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia.
Boerenhoeves in de duinen, Bredius Museum, The Hague.
Peasant Huts in a Wood, Städel Museum, Frankfurt.
Landscape with a Tower, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London.
A Tower beside a River, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Wooded landscape with a river, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest.
Travelers at the Edge of a Village, Birmingham Museums Trust.
Travelers among ruins, Palace Museum of King John III, Warsaw.

References

Roelof van Vries on the dutch web site RKD
Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie (RKD)
^ Larousse, Éditions. "Larousse, " Dictionnaire de la peinture "". www.larousse.fr (in French). Retrieved 2023-04-29.
"Roelof Jansz. van Vries". Musée Städel, Francfort. Retrieved 2023-04-29.
"Roelof Jansz. van Vries". Musée Städel, Francfort. Retrieved 2023-04-29.
RKD - Netherlands Institute for Art History
"Roelof van Vries - The Pigeon House". The Metropolitan Museum of Art..
Work by Roelof Jansz van Vries at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam
Work by Roelof Jansz van Vries at the National Gallery, National Gallery, London
"Roelof Jansz. van Vries". rkd.nl. Retrieved 2023-04-29..
"Musée Brandius". musée Bredius (in Dutch). Retrieved 2023-04-29.
"Roelof Jansz. van Vries". Musée Städel, Francfort. Retrieved 2023-04-29.
"Artworks". Musée des Beaux-Arts de Budapest. Retrieved 2023-04-29.
"Dulwich Picture Gallery, Londres". www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk. Retrieved 2023-04-29.
"Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge". The Fitzwilliam Museum. Retrieved 2023-04-29.
"River Scene in a Village". artuk.org. Retrieved 2023-04-29..
"Travellers at the Edge of a Village". artuk.org. Retrieved 2023-04-29..
"A Path leading through a Wood with Figures". artuk.org. Retrieved 2023-04-29..
"Nationalmuseum - Tower at a Canal".
"Landscape with Ruins and a River | Art UK". artuk.org. Retrieved 2023-04-29.
www.wilanow-palac.pl, Musée du Palais du Roi Jean III, Varsovie. "Travelers among ruins".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
"Stale Session". collection.nationalmuseum.se. Retrieved 2023-04-29.

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