Meindert Hobbema, October 31, 1638 – December 7, 1709, was a Dutch landscape painter born and active in Amsterdam. Orphaned as a teenager, he became a pupil of Jacob van Ruisdael by 1655.
Hobbema specialized in wooded landscapes, watermills, cottages, roads, and streams. Most of his surviving paintings date from the late 1650s and 1660s, and his figures were sometimes supplied by other artists, including Adriaen van de Velde.
In 1668 Hobbema married and became a municipal wine gauger, after which his artistic production declined. He died in Amsterdam and is represented in collections including the Rijksmuseum, National Gallery, National Gallery of Art, Mauritshuis, and Frick Collection.
Portrait of Meindert Hobbema, 1823–1867
Black and red chalk on paper, 9.6 × 7.6 in
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Wooded Landscape with Figures on a Path, c 1650–1679
Oil on panel, 10.1 × 14.6 in
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven
The Travelers, 1662?
Oil on canvas, 39.8 × 57.1 in
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
View Along the Amstel, c 1660
Oil on panel, 13.8 × 18.8 in
Saint Louis Art Museum
Mountain Landscape with Travellers and a Pond, 1659
Oil on panel, 21.5 × 28 in
Private Collection
The Haarlem Lock, Amsterdam, c 1663–1665
Oil on canvas, 30.3 × 38.6 in
National Gallery, London
A Watermill, 1664
Oil on panel, 23.8 × 33.5 in
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Landscape with Anglers and a Distant Town, c 1664–1665
Oil on panel, 9.9 × 12.6 in
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Village among Trees, 1665
Oil on panel, 30 × 43.5 in
Frick Collection, New York
A Watermill beside a Woody Lane, 1665 or 1668
Oil on panel, 20.6 × 26.9 in
Royal Collection, UK
Wooded Landscape with Cottages, c 1665
Oil on canvas, 34.6 × 47.5 in
Mauritshuis, The Hague
Cottages in a Forest, c 1665
Oil on panel, 20.9 × 28 in
Mauritshuis, The Hague
Wooded Landscape with Travellers
Oil on panel, 24 × 34.2 in
Private Collection
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