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CUYP , the name of a Dutch See also:

family which produced two generations 'of painters. The Cuyps were See also:long settled at See also:Dordrecht, in the neighbourhood of which they had a See also:country See also:house, where See also:Albert Cuyp (the most famous) was See also:born and bred. The eldest member of the family who acquired fame was See also:JACOB GERRXTSZ CUYP, born it is said at Dordrecht in 1575, and taught by See also:Abraham See also:Bloemaert of See also:Utrecht. He is known to have been alive in 1649, and the date of his See also:death is obscure. J. G. Cuyp's pictures are little known. But he produced portraits in various forms, as busts and See also:half-lengths thrown upon See also:plain backgrounds, or See also:groups in rooms, landscapes and gardens. Solid and See also:clever as an imitator of nature in its See also:ordinary garb, he is always spirited, sometimes rough, but generally plain, and quite as unconscious of the sparkle conspicuous in Frans See also:Hals as in-capable of the concentrated See also:light-effects See also:peculiar to See also:Rembrandt. In portrait busts, of which there are signed examples dated 1624, 1644, 1646 and 1649, in the museums of See also:Berlin, See also:Rotterdam, See also:Marseilles, See also:Vienna and See also:Metz, his treatment is honest, homely and true; his See also:touch and See also:tone See also:firm and natural. In portraying See also:children he is fond of introducing playthings and pets—a See also:lamb, a See also:goat or a roedeer; and he reproduces See also:animal See also:life with realistic care. In a family See also:scene at the See also:Amsterdam Museum we have likenesses of men, See also:women, boys and girls with a cottage and See also:park: In the background is a See also:coach with a pair of horses.

These examples alone give us a See also:

clue to the influences under which Albert Cuyp See also:grew up, and explain to some extent the direction which his See also:art took as he See also:rose to manhood.

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