Artist
Ludolf de Jongh
Dutch, 1616–1679
Ludolf de Jongh was a Dutch Dutch Golden Age painter. 11 works are cataloged here, principally at Rijksmuseum, most of them oil paintings. Ludolf de Jongh was born in Rotterdam.
Ludolf de Jongh or Ludolf Leendertsz. de Jongh (Overschie, 1616 – Hillegersberg, 1679) was a Dutch painter, known for his genre scenes, hunting scenes, history paintings, landscapes, cityscapes, and portraits. He was further a merchant, an officer in the civil guard of Rotterdam and a schout (sheriff) of Hillegersberg. He was in the 1650s the leading genre painter in Rotterdam whose work influenced artists such as Pieter de Hooch.
He was active as a staffage painter and added the figures in the works of artists such as the church interior painter Anthonie de Lorme and the landscape painter Joris van der Haagen.
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