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 others in Aschaffenburg, Prague, Innsbruck, and Pesth Galleries, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.—Archief v. Nederl. K., ii. 75; Bode, Studien, 327; Riegel, Beiträge, ii. 192.

CUYP (Kuyp), AELBERT, born at Dordrecht in Oct. 1620, died there, buried Nov. 6, 1691. Dutch school; landscape, animal, and marine painter; son and pupil of Jacob Gerritsz Cuyp.

Lived many years at Dordwijk, near Dordrecht, where, as vassal of the countship of Holland, he had the right to sit in the Supreme Court of Justice. His name was presented to the Stadtholder William III., in 1672, as a nominee for membership in the regency of Dordrecht. In his early years he painted still life, birds, stables, sometimes portraits, signed A. C.; later, figures, cattle, views of meadows, and winter scenes, signed with his whole name. Out of the 336 pictures by this celebrated painter, at least 200 are in England, where he is deservedly held in very high esteem for his peculiar qualities. In the treatment of atmospheric effects, whether of morning, noontide, or sunset, Cuyp has no rival save Claude, whom he even surpasses in his power of diffusing a glow of light throughout the limits of a canvas. This remark applies only to the landscapes of his later time, for in those of an earlier period a hardness of outline, heaviness of tone, and deficiency of aerial perspective are perceptible. Works: 7 Landscapes, Portrait, National Gallery; 4 Landscapes, Bridgewater Gallery; 5 do., Grosvenor Gallery; 5 do., Duke of Bedford; 9 do., Buckingham Palace, London; 18 do., Dulwich Gallery, Dulwich; Landscape, Starting for a Ride, The Ride, Marine View, Male portraits, Group of Children, Louvre; Shepherds with Flocks, Cavalry Fight, Cock Fight, View of Dordrecht, do. near Dordrecht, Rustic Amusement, Cattle, Mountainous Landscape, male portrait, National Museum, Amsterdam; Two Children with a Lamb, Cologne Museum; Landscapes with Cattle (5), Berlin Museum; Horseman holding Horse, Cock and Hen, Old Pinakothek, Munich; Hunting Scene, portrait, Dresden Gallery; Cows (2), Vienna Museum; Landscape, portraits of himself and family, Buda-Pesth Gallery; Moonlight at Sea, Sea with Boats, Cows and Water (4), Horses and Cows (3), Hermitage, St. Petersburg.—Allgem. d. Biogr., iv. 666; Kugler (Crowe), ii. 459; Dohme, 1ii.; Ch. Blanc, École hollandaise.

CUYP, JACOB GERRITSZ (Jan Gerritsen), born in Dordrecht in 1575, died after 1649. Dutch school; portrait and animal painter, pupil of Abraham Bloemart. Founded, in 1642, with Izak van Hasselt, Cornelis Tegelberg, and Jacques Grief, a guild of St. Luke in Dordrecht. He belongs to that prominent group of masters like Ravesteyn, Hals, Bramer, who as true interpreters of nature led Dutch art to the high development culminating in the genius of Rembrandt. Works: Family Picture, Amsterdam Museum; Three Children (1635), An Officer (1644), Female Portrait (1644), Rotterdam Museum; Male and Female Portrait (1649), Metz Museum; Landscape with Cattle, Old Pinakothek, Munich; Portrait of an Old Woman (1624), Berlin Museum;