Aelbert Cuyp

Aelbert Cuyp
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(1620–1691) Dutch landscape painter (1620-1691)

Aelbert Cuyp (Netherlands, 1620–1691) is listed in the catalogue as a painter, a printmaker, and a draughtsman. By year of birth, Aelbert Cuyp belongs to the chapter ‘The Baroque’ in this site’s history of art.

Aelbert Cuyp was born in Dordrecht and died in Dordrecht. Aelbert Cuyp studied under Jacob Gerritsz. Cuyp. Wikidata associates Aelbert Cuyp with Dutch Golden Age painting. The students included Abraham van Calraet.

The best-known works include ‘Equestrian Portrait of Pieter de Roovere’, ‘The Maas at Dordrecht’, and ‘The Valkhof at Nijmegen’. The works belong mainly to the genres landscape painting, graphics, and engraving. The catalogue has 250 works by Aelbert Cuyp with free images. The dated works span the years 1639–1700. Works by Aelbert Cuyp are held by several collections, among them National Gallery, Dordrechts Museum, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, and Dulwich Picture Gallery. Wikidata links one work to a movement covered in the chapter ‘The Baroque’.

Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Peeter Neeffs, Theodoor Boeyermans, Nicasius Bernaerts, Jan van den, the elder Hecke, and Isaac Willaerts.