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Early Paintings

Few of Hobbema's landscapes represent a real locale.

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Instead they abound with motifs inspired by the earlier compositions of Ruisdael, in whose footsteps Hobbema followed until around His earliest known work, Landscape with River (, Detroit Institute of Arts), was a favourite subject of the young artist.

The Landscapes of (Fine Arts Museum, Grenoble; National Gallery, Edinburgh) are derived from Ruisdael, to whom he again turned for inspiration in , in his forest landscapes: A Woody Landscape with a Cottage (National Gallery, London) and The Edge of the Woods, with Farm (, Alte Pinakothek, Munich).

The foliage in paintings such as the Landscape with Forest near Haarlem (, Museum of Ancient Art, Brussels), The Forest (, Hermitage, St Petersburg) or The Village among Trees (, Frick Collection, New York) is defined with extreme precision.

The Haarlem Lock, Amsterdam (National Gallery, London), one of his rare urban vi