Landscape with river and trees in the neighborhood of Dordrecht

The painting is reminiscent of the forested landscapes of Meindert Hobbema (1638-1709). Just as painters from the Golden Age, van Strij added the most attractive elements of nature together. Thus, the fortres-likebuilding on the left based on one of the city gates of Dordrecht. The casing around the tower there is by van Strij fantasized.

With this painting van Strij developed his own character. He became incresingly removed from its seventeenth century predecesors. This painting anticipates the romantic period of a few decades later, with painters such as Barend Cornelis Koekkoek and Willem de Klerk.

Series of seven wall paintings with Dutch and Italian landscapes

These paintings belong to a series of wallpaper systems that Jacob made for a house on the Groenmarkt i Dordrecht. The series includes several landscapes from Italy, to pure Dutch. The sunny, Italian-like landscapes betray the influence of seventeenth-century painters such as Aelbert Cuyp and Jan Both (1618-1652). For the landscape with trees and livestock van Strij used motives after the work of Paulus Potter (1625-1654).

Until the end of the nineteent century the wall spreads stayed in Dordrecht. Then they moved to a house in Gelderland. The Dordrecht Museum acquired the series in 1976.

Series of seven wall paintings with Dutch and Italian landscapes
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Series of seven wall paintings with Dutch and Italian landscapes
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Landscape with trees and cattle near Dordrecht

Around 1800 Jacob tried in his work to surpass the bright and sunny landscapes of Aelbert Cuyp. The rider on horseback, he literally copied from one of most famous paintings of Cuyp, Landscape with cattle, equetrian and farmers. In 1764, an engraving of the painting was produced. Van Strij must certainly have known the print.

Cuyp's composition, bt mirrored, as in the print - is in Van Strijs landscape clearly recognizable. However, the atmosphere is very different. This is due to a difference in practice, Cuyp worked on a dark background, van Strij on a muscular white. The light shines through the colors supporting over and enhanced brightness.

Summer scene outside Dordrecht

In his later landscapes van Strij uses for the trees often a striking yellow-green. This was in response to a critics in 1811, who rejected van Strijs entries for an exhibition, because he saw two paintings "beautiful ordinnce, but in my opinion is of similar nature, as I have never such a green seen in the shadows of trees.

Winter scen at the Devel in Zwijndrecht

Besides a large number of summer landscapes Jacob painted only a few winter scenes. On this winter scene we see in the distance, the Great Church of Dordrecht. The wide, bright landscape with low horizon recalls seventeenth-century painters such as Jacob Ruisdael (1628/29-1682) and Adriaen van de Velde (1636-1672).

Five wall paintngs

Abraham and Jacob van Strij painted aseries of five chamber wall spreads for an unknown client in Dordrecht. The series is among the best the brothers have made in this genre.

The wall systems were for  long time no longer in their original place. In May 2005 they were by the owner put on the market. At Sotheby's in Amsterdam, the five piecs should be auctioned separately, but fortunately, at the last moment the Dordrechts Museum could be purchased as a whole series In the future, the series will be shown in full glory in a reconstruction of the original situation.

Landscape with horseman and milk-maid

Landscape with dead tree

Mountain landscape with river

Michiel en Cornelis Pompe van Meerdervoort

Draining of the water from the in 1809 broken dikes in Alblasserwaard (near Dordrcht)

Winter landscape with farm hoses and two children on the way

Riverview with rapids

Landchape with cows at a river withh boats

Summer landscape outside Dordrecht

River view with rider

The yacht of the VOC-Chamber of Rotterdam greeting a Dutch East Indie shipand a warship at the coast of Hellevoetsluis

Sheep

River Landscape with man on horseback, shepherd and cattle

Landscape with Figures, Cattle and Sheep

Landscape with Cattle

Dutch winter landscape with frozen river and farm with thatched roof, in the foreground a figure with sleigh and a lady with a creel basket

The Grotekerksbuurt (The neighborhood of the Dordrecht Minster)

Holland

Two Boeiers and a Ca under Sail

This painting, depicting two boeies and a cat under sail with other smaller vessels moored at the end of a jetty, with figures near a lantern on the jetty, formed pat of a rare set of six wall-hangings by the brothers Jacob and Abraham van Strij. Only very few complete or almost complete sets have survived, one of which, a set of seve, is now in the Dordrechts Museum, Dordrecht, and another set of five is in the Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague. Wall-hangings became very popuar in the second half of the 18th century, when several factories in Amsterdam were established producing thse wall-hangings for the canal houses. The workshop of the Strij brothers also produced wall-hangings which are often signed by only one artist, the ain contributor, in this case Jacob. However, in most cases the hand of both painters can be seen.

Autumn Landscape

This painting, depicting an autumn landscape with a shpherd and his herd and travelers near an inn, formed part of a rare set of six wall-hangings by the brothers Jacob and Abraham van Strij. Only very few complete or almost complete sets have srvived, one of which, a set of seven, is now in the Dordrechts Museu, Dordrecht, and another set of five is in the Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague.

Wall-hangings became very popular in the second half of the 18th century, when several factories in Amsterdam were established producing these wll-hangings for the canal houses. The workshop of the Strij brothers also produced wall-hangings which are often signed by only one artist, the main contibutor, in this case Jacob. However, in most cases the hand of both painters can be seen.

Vanitas still life with a skull, feathers, an overturned Roemer, a sculpture and a portfolio of drawings

Still-life

Om this still-life was the signature "A.Susenier', but disappeared during a cleaning of the painting. However, the painting is attributed to Susenier becsause typical for him is the way the grape vines in the composite are situatedl and th silhouette against the bright background.

Still-life with shells

This painting is unique in Susenier's oeuvre. It is one of the few Dutch still lifes from the seventeenth century with shells as main object. Most shells on this painting come from the East Indies area, a few are from other parts of the world.

A Still Life with a Basket of Grapes, a Lemmon on a Pewter Plate and a Roemer

A Still Life with a Lobster, Roemer, Clams, Grapes, and a Knife

A still-life of a lobster on a blue and white Wang-Li dish