# Jacob van Ruisdael Sketching a Watermill

- By: Gerard Bilders (Utrecht, 1838–1865)
- Date: 1864
- Medium: canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification: painting
- Dimensions: height 86.5 cm x width 61.5 cm
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/SK-A-4865--3f6b04d391cda740ba96e9e61ab54a9a)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://iiif.micr.io/FLhJr/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
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This painting was part of a ‘historical gallery’, a collection of paintings and sculptures glorifying Dutch art. The landscape painter Jacob van Ruisdael was one of the 17th-century artists to be honoured with a painting. He is shown here out-of-doors, in the act of sketching a watermill. Bilders was clearly more skilled in painting the landscape than in rendering the figure.