The Ford

1660 · Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp

landscape

The dynamic, cosmic vision in the tradition of Rubens is absent from Jan Siberechts' The Ford. The artist was seduced by Dutch landscape art with its lightness of touch, and clear, impressionistic atmosphere. Siberechts' vaguely erotic paintings have, however, a certain solidity of form and evenness of execution.

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About the Artist

Jan Siberechts

1627 – 1703

Flemish landscape painter who settled in England in the early 1670s. His landscapes are somewhat Rubensian, but he is best known for his "portraits" of English country houses, done in a simple, rather archaic manner; two views of Longleat, Wiltshire (1675 and 1676), are still preserved in the house. He was the first professional exponent of the genre.

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