The Serene Legacy of Wouter Knijff In the golden era of Dutch landscape painting, few artists captured the quiet majesty of the Low Countries with as much atmospheric grace as Wouter Knijff. A master of the seventeenth century, Knijff possessed a rare ability to transform the mundane vistas of the Dutch countryside into poetic meditations on light and stillness. His life, spanning from approximately 1607 in Wesel, Germany, to his late…