Hendrick Avercamp
(1585 - 1634)

 

Hendrick Avercamp was a Dutch painter during the Dutch Golden Age of painting. He was one of the earliest landscape painters of the 17th-century Dutch school, he specialized in painting the Netherlands in winter. His paintings are colorful and lively, with carefully crafted images of the people in the landscape. His works give a vivid depiction of sport and leisure in the Netherlands in the beginning of the 17th century. Many of Avercamp's paintings feature people ice skating on frozen lakes. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hendrick_Avercamp

Winter Landscape with Skaters
C. 1608
Oil on panel
77.3 x 131.9 cm
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/nl/collectie/object/---918895dc18da94e357c6763adda8882f