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 | | As well as painting genre scenes in the manner of Adriaen, Isaack was an outstanding practitioner of the winter landscape and his early death cut short, after 11 years, a career of great promise, in the course of which he produced an extraordinary volume of work. |
 | | His older brother Adriaen van Ostade trained him, but his early landscape studies suggest instruction by a landscape painter, possibly Salomon van Ruysdael, who sued Adriaen in 1640 for "sums due for board and tuition." Isack van Ostade's earliest dated picture is inscribed 1639. |
 | | A Winter Scene (1645, 49x40cm) _ Isack van Ostade was the short-lived younger brother of the painter of scenes from peasant life, Adriaen van Ostade. |
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