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Ruisdael, or Ruysdael, Jacob van (1629–82), celebrated Dutch landscape painter and etcher. A great influence on English and French landscapists for 2 centuries, he favored a new heroic-romantic style in which small human beings were dwarfed by forests, stormy seas, and magnificent cloudscapes. His works include Wheatfields and Jewish Cemetery.