Roelof Jansz van Vries explained

Roelof Jansz van Vries
Birth Date:	1631
Birth Place:	Haarlem
Death Date:	1681/1701
Death Place:	Amsterdam
Nationality:	Dutch
Field:	Painting, drawing
Movement:	Dutch Golden Age
Spouse:	Marytje Adriaens

Roelof Jansz van Vries or Roelof van Vries (1631, Haarlem – 1681/1701, Amsterdam)^[1] 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^[2] (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.^[3] 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,^[4] 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.^[5]

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^[6]

Works

• The Pigeon House,^[7] New York City, Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Landscape with a Falconer,^[8] Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
• View of a village,^[9] National Gallery, London
• Village on the banks of a river,^[10] Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia.
• A farm and its outbuildings in the dunes,^[11] Bredius Museum, The Hague.
• Peasant huts in a wood^[12] , Städel Museum, Frankfurt
• Wooded landscape with a river,^[13] museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
• Landscape with a tower^[14] Dulwich Picture Gallery, London
• A tower by a river,^[15] Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
• River in a Village,^[16] Holburne Museum, Somerset
• Travelers at the Edge of a Village,^[17] Birmingham Museums Trust, Birmingham
• A Path leading through a Wood with Figures,^[18] Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
• Boat near a ruinhttps://compiegne-peintures.fr/notice/notice.php?id=286, Collection Dumez, Château de Compiègne.
• Construction of a tower by a canal,^[19] Nationalmuseum, Stockholm.
• Landscape with Ruins and a River,^[20] Bowes Museum, Durham .
• Travelers among ruins^[21] , King John's Palace Museum III, Warsaw.
• Ruin of a castle,^[22] Nationalmuseum, Stockholm.

External links

• Metropolitan Museum of Art, New Yorg
• Rijksmuseum, Amsterdamhttps://www.rijksmuseum.nl/nl/collectie/SK-A-459
• National Gallery, London
• Philadelphia Museum of Art
• Städel Museum, Frankfurt
• Museum Bredius, The Hague
• Château de Compiègne, France
• Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
• Dulwich Picture Gallery, London
• The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
• The Holburne Museum, Somerset
• Travellers at the edge of a village Birmingham Museums Trust
• Bowes Museum, Durham
• Musée du Palais du Roi Jean III, Varsovie
• Nationalmuseum, Stockholm.
• Van Vries on Artnet
• Benezit (1939 edition)

Notes and References

1. https://rkd.nl/nl/explore/artists/82151 Roelof van Vries on the dutch web site RKD
2. https://rkd.nl/nl/explore/artists/82151 Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie (RKD)
3. Web site: 2023-04-29. Éditions. fr. Larousse. Larousse, " Dictionnaire de la peinture ".. www.larousse.fr.
4. Web site: 2023-04-29. en. Roelof Jansz. van Vries. Musée Städel, Francfort.
5. Web site: 2023-04-29. en. Roelof Jansz. van Vries. Musée Städel, Francfort.
6. https://rkd.nl/nl/explore/artists/82151 RKD - Netherlands Institute for Art History
7. Web site: en. Roelof van Vries - The Pigeon House. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. .
8. https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/artists/roelof-van-vries Work by Roelof Jansz van Vries at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam
9. http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/roelof-van-vries-a-view-of-a-village Work by Roelof Jansz van Vries at the National Gallery
10. Web site: 2023-04-29. Roelof Jansz. van Vries. rkd.nl. .
11. Web site: 2023-04-29. nl. Musée Brandius. musée Bredius.
12. Web site: 2023-04-29. en. Roelof Jansz. van Vries. Musée Städel, Francfort.
13. Web site: 2023-04-29. en-US. Artworks. Musée des Beaux-Arts de Budapest.
14. Web site: 2023-04-29. Dulwich Picture Gallery, Londres. www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk.
15. Web site: 2023-04-29. en. Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. The Fitzwilliam Museum.
16. Web site: 2023-04-29. en. River Scene in a Village. artuk.org. .
17. Web site: 2023-04-29. en. Travellers at the Edge of a Village. artuk.org. .
18. Web site: 2023-04-29. en. A Path leading through a Wood with Figures. artuk.org. .
19. https://collection.nationalmuseum.se/eMP/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=collection&objectId=17694&viewType=detailView#:~:text=https%3A//collection.nationalmuseum.se%3A443/eMP/eMuseumPlus%3Fservice%3DExternalInterface%26module%3Dcollection%26objectId%3D17694%26viewType%3DdetailView
20. Web site: 2023-04-29. en. Landscape with Ruins and a River Art UK. artuk.org.
21. Web site: www.wilanow-palac.pl, Musée du Palais du Roi Jean III, Varsovie. Travelers among ruins..
22. Web site: 2023-04-29. Stale Session. collection.nationalmuseum.se.