These so-called Italianates frequently incorporated Roman ruins in their paintings. Among the most famous representatives are Cornelis van Poelenburch, Karel du Jardin, Claes Berchem and Jan Baptist Weenix . Special types of landscape painting are seascapes, animal scenes and city views. The Dutch nation secured a great deal of its income from seafaring and it is therefore not surprising that the sea and ships were regularly depicted in paintings. The most renowned marine painter was without a doubt Willem van de Velde the Younger .
Animals frequently play a role in landscapes.
Thus animal paintings, for example animal portraits , belong to this genre. Cityscapes, which give an impression of the appearance of Dutch cities in the Golden Age, are also categorised in the landscape genre. Johannes Vermeer s famous View of Delft is unequivocally one of the Mauritshuis masterpieces .