High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Aert van der Neer, or Aernout or Artus (c. 1603 – November 9, 1677), was a landscape painter of the Dutch Golden Age, specializing in small night scenes lit only by moonlight and fires, and snowy winter landscapes, both often looking down a canal or river. He was a contemporary of Albert Cuyp and Meindert Hobbema, and like the latter he lived and died in comparative obscurity.