#21 Unidentified Flower Guitar

The painting is Wheatfields by Jacob van Ruisdael, from the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. You think these odd painters are going to be obscure and unknown, but they are documented all over the internet- even this Dutch landscape painter from the 1600's. Wikipedia informs us of the following: "During his lifetime, his works were little appreciated, and he seems to have suffered from poverty. In 1681 the sect of the Mennonites, with whom he was connected, petitioned the council of Haarlem for his admission into the almshouse of the town, and there the artist died on the 14th of March 1682."