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Aelbert Cuyp Biography

(1620-91) Holland landscape paintings artist

The most famous member of the family and now one of the most celebrated of all landscape painters, although Aelbert Cuyp also painted many other subjects. He was the son and probably the pupil of Jacob Gerritsz. Early Aelbert Cuyp paintings also show the influence of Jan van Goyen.

He was born and died at Dordrecht, but he seems to have traveled along Holland's great rivers to the eastern part of the Netherlands, and Aelbert Cuyp also painted views of Westphalia.

A prodigious number of pictures are ascribed to him, but his oeuvre poses many problems. Aelbert Cuyp often signed his paintings but rarely dated them, and a satisfactory chronology has never been established. Although Aelbert Cuyp had little influence outside Dordrecht, he had several imitators there, and some of the paintings formerly attributed to him are now given to Abraham Calraet (1642-1722), who signed himself `AC'.
In 1658 Aelbert Cuyp married a rich widow, and in the 1660s he seems to have virtually abandoned painting. He was almost forgotten for two generations after his death.

Late 18th-century English collectors are credited with rediscovering his merits, and he is still much better represented in English collections, public and private, than in Dutch museums. The finest Aelbert Cuyp paintings--typically river scenes and landscapes with placid, dignified-looking cows -- show great serenity and masterly handling of glowing light (usually Cuyp favored the effects of the early morning or evening sun). Aelbert Cuyp approaches Claude more closely in spirit than any of his countrymen who travelled to Italy.