Baptised in Amsterdam in November 1629, van Ludick was a landscape painter in the manner of Jan Both. His father was a merchant and art dealer who was acquainted with a number of artists, including Rembrandt.
In 1672 van Ludick was one of the artists (Vermeer was another) asked to adjudicate in a dispute over the authenticity of a group of paintings sold by Hendrick van Uylenburch to the Elector of Brandenburg.
Lodewijck van Ludick
1629 - before 1697
Paintings by Lodewijck van Ludick
In the seventeenth century, several Dutch artists went to Rome and brought back paintings and sketches. They, and others like van Ludick, used these works as a basis for imaginary paintings of the Italian landscape with a mountainous background and a softly lit Mediterranean sky. They proved very...
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