Attributed to Jurriaan Andriessen

The words attributed to on a Rijksmuseum label mean that the museum believes a work is by the painter named but stops short of certainty. Under this entry the qualifier covers a set of painted wall hangings from 1776, given to the Amsterdam painter Jurriaan Andriessen.

Andriessen, born in 1742, gave his career almost entirely to such hangings. Canvas painted with landscapes and hung from wall to wall was a favoured way to decorate a good room in 18th-century Amsterdam, and he became the most important specialist in the city. He painted at least 70 rooms, working with his brother Anthonie and later his son Christiaan, and around 300 of his surviving drawings are designs for them, often with the client's name on the back. A stroke in 1799 ended his working life, and he died in 1819. Of all those rooms, only seven are still in the houses they were painted for.