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 npon 1416. The altar-piece of the high altar in the cathedral of Belluno was executed by him in 1397. There also remain of his works :

Belluno. Baptistery. St. Martin dividing his Cloak: and sixteen other episodes from his life. „ Casa Pagani. Virgin of Mercy, between 16 subjects from the life of St. Bartholomew.

CUSTODIS, HiERONTMO, was a painter of Ant- werp, of whom nothing is known beyond the few words he has inscribed on his portraits. Two of these, Giles Bruges, Lord Chandos, and Elizabeth Bruges, Lady Kennedy, are at Wobum Abbey, and a third. Sir John Parker, is at Hampton Court. All three were painted in England in 1589, and are very poor productions.

GUSTOS, DoMiNicDS. See De Coster.

CUVILLIES, FBANgois, a French architect, and engraver of ornaments, was bom at Soissons in 1698, and went to Paris in 1714 to study architecture under Robert de Cotte. About 1720 he was sent to Cologne to execute work for the Elector James Clement, and in 1738 he was nominated architect to the Elector of Bavaria, afterwards the Emperor Charles VIL He died about the end of 1767 or the beginning of 1768.

CUVILLlfeS, FBANgois, the son of the preceding, was an engineer and architect, born at Munich in 1734. He succeeded his father at the court of Munich, and there published his father's works in 1769 — 1772. He etched some plates of Funeral Monuments, Fountains, and Caryatides, and is sup- posed to have died about 1805.

CUYCK VAN MIEROP, Fbans van, (or Cuyck VAN MiERHOP,) was bom at Bruges in 1640, and painted in Ghent historical pictures, with portraits of the persons in the events depicted, but his best productions represent animals, especially fish, and some of his works are scarcely to be dis- tinguished from those of Snyders. He was de- scended from a noble family, and at first painted only for amusement ; but a reverse of fortune compelled hira to pursue the art as a profession. He died after 1686. The Academy of Bruges has a picture of ' Still Life ' by this painter.

CUYLENBORCH, Abraham van, (CuTLENBURa, or KuTLENBURG,) was a painter of Utrecht, who flourished in the 17th century. He was instructed by Poelenburg, in wnose manner he executed land- scapes with idyllic and mythological scenes ; his figures, however, are but abortive imitations of that master. In 1639 he was appointed master of the Guild at Utrecht, and his name occurs in the records as late as 1660. Among his paintings we mny notice :

Brunswick. Gallery. Cologne. „ Hague. „

CUYLENBURG, Cs. van, of Utrecht, painted in Holland in the early j-ears of the nineteenth century. He died at the Hague after 1816. A portrait of Willem Crul by him is in the Amsterdam Gallery.

CUYP, Aelbeet, the son of Jacob Gerritsz Cuyp, was bora at Dordrecht in 1605, and studied under his father. He married in 1658, and lived chiefly on his estate, Dordwijk, near Dordrecht, in which town he was considered of some importance. His name does not occur in the records of the Guild :

A Grotto. A Grotto. Diana. Diana. 1&46. 1647. 1660

and it is thought by some that he may have practised art only as an amateur. But little is known of his life. He died in 1691, ana was buried in the church of the Augustines at Dordrecht.

Cuyp, who has been called the Dutch Claude, acquired the chaste and exquisite style, for which he is so particularly admired, by a close and vigilant attention to nature, under all the vicissitudes of atmosphere and season. His pictures frequently represent the borders of the Maas, with shepherds and herdsmen tending their cattle. These sub- jects he has treated with an enchanting simplicity, that may truly be said to be peculiar to him. Whether he wished to exhibit the dewy vapour of morning, ushering in the brightness of a summer day, the gUttering heat of noon, or the still radiance of evening, nature is perfectly represented. No painter, perhaps, has surpassed him in the purity of aerial tint. Cuyp did not confine himself to land- scapes and figures ; he painted with equal success sea-pieces and views of rivers, with boats some- times sailing with a fresh breeze, sometimes at anchor in a sultry calm ; winter-scenes, with people amusing themselves on the ice ; and pictures of birds, which would have been a credit to D'Hondecoeter. He excelled also in horse-fairs and skir- mishes of cavalry, which he painted with infinite spirit, in a manner equal, if not superior, to Wouwerman. He was not less happy in his pictures of moonlight ; in which the works of Van der Neer are eclipsed by a superior and a more delicate degradation of light. He also painted portraits (an example is in the National Gallery), interiors of churches, fruit, and flowers ; and may thus be called the most universal painter of the school to which he belonged. The pictures of Cuyp are to be met with more frequently in England than in any other country, and, with the exception of those in the Louvre, almost all his masterpieces may be found in the public galleries and private collections of this country, for it was in England that the beauty of his pictures was first appreciated. Till about the middle of the 18th century, they could be bought for as little as thirty florins a-piece ; they now fetch as much as £3,000.

The following are some of his principal works, which are usually signed (in early life, A. C, and later, A. Cuijp), but rarely dated.

Amsterdam. Gallery. Amsterdam Six Coll. Antwerp. Berlin. Gallery. Museum. Brussels. Museum. Copenhagen. Museum. Darmstadt. Museum. Dresden. Gallery. Dublin. Dulwich. Xat. Gall. Gallery. Hilly Landscape. Shepherds with their Flocks in a landscape. Cavalry Combat. View of Dordrecht. Moonlight Scene. The Two Cavaliers. Sandy Landscape. Sunny View of the Dimes. Kiver Scene. Cows in a Landscape. Interior of a Stable, with an Ox and Fowls. Landscape with Horsemen. Herdsman and Cattle. Himting Scene. Boy with a Greyhound. Portrait of Himself, as a bridegroom. A Grey Horse with a Groom. Milking Cows. The White Horse in a riding stable. Evening Ride near a Eiver. A Road near a River. Cattle and Figures near a River, with Mountains.