Visual+Arts+-+Classical+Arts+-+The+Old+Oak

===This painting is an oil painting and was completed in 1662 by an artist named Meindert Hobbema (1638 - 1709) who was Dutch and was born in Amsterdam. The canvas measurement is around 101.0 x 144.0. Meindert was one of the few chosen apprentices to enter the studio of the artist Jacob Van Ruisdale in 1655. Ruisdale had a very great lasting effect on Hobbema's work, with two other artists often portraying the same scenes. Hobbema specialized in producing heavily wooded landscapes that often had a romantic character or feel to them, which were similar to his master's painting. Hobbema did not imbue or infuse his work with the same sort of degree of drama or eerie sort of atmosphere as Ruisdale did.===

===I like this artwork a lot because it shows such simplicity and beauty. The painting includes such detail and the artist payed such attention to the tree and its leaves with all the colour and markings that is shown in the small areas of the painting. (Credit to Zarreen Moghbelpour)===