Roelof van Vries was born in Haarlem. He worked in Leiden, Haarlem and Amsterdam. He was a landscape painter whose style is based on that of Jacob van Ruisdael.
Roelof van Vries
1630/1 - after 1681
Paintings by Roelof van Vries
Two figures stand and sit in the shadows at the edge of a wood and contemplate an ancient church almost shrouded in trees. Light filters down a pathway between them, giving an eerie feeling to the image. The picture has lost some of its colour and vibrancy, but even so it brings the imagination i...
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