Discover painter, draftsperson, print artist Aelbert Cuyp

Name variations

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: Cuijp, Aelbert
Cuijp, Aelbrecht
Cuijp, Albert
Cuyp, Aelbrecht
Cuyp, Albert
Cuyp, Albrecht
Cuyp, Aelbert Gerritsz.
Kuip, Aelbert
Kuip, Aelbrecht

Qualifications: painter, draftsperson, print artist
he made etchings of cows after his own designs

Nationality/school: North Netherlandish

Born: Dordrecht (city) 1620-10
Aelbert was baptized in the Augustijnenkerk. See External links. The listing occurred in the month of October 1620 (DTB 4, p. 12v; Veth 1884, p. 243; Veerman 1977, p. 18; Paarlberg et al. 2002, p. 202); he was no. 100 of the 114 children baptized that month, so that must have been in the end of October. provided the registrations in the Dordrecht baptism book are done in chronological order (with thanks to Marten Jan Bok, Harm Nijboer and Jaap van der Veen, 4/3/2020). Wrongly listed in Van der Willigen/Meijer 2003 as born on 20 October 1620.

Deceased: Dordrecht (city) 1691-11/1691-11-07
buried 7 November 1691 in the Augustijnenkerk. See External links. Sometimes 15 November 1591 is given as burial date (starting with Chong 1992, p. 566); however, that date refers to the registration in the parallel (but later made) funeral register of the Orphanage by the Kerkvoogdij (with thanks to Marten Jan Bok, Harm Nijboer and Jaap van der Veen, 4/3/2020).

Family relationships this field records any family relationship to one or more other artist(s).: son of Jacob Gerritsz. Cuyp (1594-1652) and Aertken Cornelisdr van Cooten, cousin of Benjamin Gerritsz. Cuyp (1612-1652)

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551 hits in RKDimages as artist
37 hits in RKDlibrary as subject
1 hit in RKDlibrary as illustrator
4010 hits in RKDexcerpts as artist
21 hits in RKDtechnical as artist

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Biographical information

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Dordrecht (stad) 1635 - 1642
active from c. 1638 on; probably did not paint much anymore after his marriage in 1658; however, he did have a pupil in the 1660: Barent van Kalraet in 1665 (Ecartico, seen 19/9/2018); earliest dated work 1639, see Van der Veen 2019 (ill.)
Rhenen (plaats) 1642
made a trip through the Northern Netherlands, visited a.o. Rhenen, Arnhem, Amersfoort, Utrecht, Leiden and The Hague (Saur 1999)
Arnhem (plaats) 1642
Amersfoort (plaats) 1642
Utrecht (stad) 1642
Leiden (stad) 1642
Den Haag (stad) 1642
Dordrecht (stad) 1642 - 1651
Arnhem (plaats) 1651 - 1652
in 1651 or in 1652 he made a second trip, visiting Arnhem, Nijmegen, Elten, Emmerich, Cleves and Kalkar (Saur 1999)
Nijmegen (stad) 1651 - 1652
in 1651 or 1652
Elten 1651 - 1652
in 1651 or 1652
Emmerik 1651 - 1652
in 1651 or 1652
Kleef 1651 - 1652
in 1651 or 1652
Kalkar 1651 - 1652
in 1651 or 1652
Dordrecht (stad) 1652 - 1691

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Connections with other artists

Pupil of This field mentions the names of teachers or masters. What is at issue are the teachers who made a significant contribution to the development of a students, as opposed to every instructor they ever had. See also the 'Education' field.: Cuyp, Jacob Gerritsz.
Teacher of This field mentions the names of pupils. What is at issue are the pupils who were significantly influenced by a teacher as opposed to every student someone ever had. See also the 'Education' field.: Calraet, Abraham van
Kalraet, Barent van
Followed by This field mentions the artist’s emulators. Although students can naturally also be followers, they are not mentioned again here. What is meant by followers are those who continue to work in the spirit of a predecessor. Sometimes this may happen a century later; there is no time limit. What is at issue, however, is that someone’s oeuvre must substantially follow in the manner of the artist emulated.: Dearman, John
Gebauer, Christian David
Gruyter, Jacob de
Kobell, Wilhelm von
Meijer, Hendrick de
Olst, Al. van
Ryckhals, François
Schut, C.W.
Worrell, Abraham Bruinings van
Influenced by In contrast with ‘follower of’, we speak of ‘influenced by’ when an artist was influenced outside the context of an educational setting or servile following. An artist can be influenced by several artists at once, or in succession. In addition, there may be question of a transition to a personal style which may demonstrate development.: Berchem, Nicolaes
Poelenburch, Cornelis van
Ruysdael, Salomon van
Saftleven, Herman
Influence on This field specifies the artists influenced by the artist in question, without there being question of an educational setting or servile following.: Anderson, William
Baldock, James Walsham
Barlow, Francis
Biedermann, Johann Jakob
Bourgeois, Francis (Sir)
Buckworth, Martha
Burnet, James
Burnet, John
Burnier, Richard
Callcott, Augustus Wall (Sir)
Cave, Peter La
Chambers, George (I)
Cooke, Edward William
Cooper, Thomas Sidney
Corbould, Aster R.C.
Crome, John
Crome, John Berney
Davis, Richard Barrett
Dawson, Henry
Demarne, Jean-Louis
Denis, Simon
Doughty, Thomas
Farrington, Richard
Gauermann, Friedrich
Gilpin, Sawrey
Grailly, Victor de
Hondecoeter, Gijsbert de
Huber, Jean Daniel
Ingalton, William
Koningh, Leendert de
Lane, Fitz Henry
Lundbye, Johan Thomas
Ommeganck, Balthasar Paul
Pettit, Joseph Paul
Pforr, Johann Georg
Richter, Erik
Schweickhardt, Hendrik Willem
Tegelberg, Cornelis
Tennant, John F.
Thompson, Mark
Towne, Charles (I)
Turner, Joseph Mallord William
Vermeulen, Cornelis (1732-1813)
Voltz, Friedrich
Wainewright, Thomas Francis
Williams, Edward
Wilson, Andrew
Wilson, John James
Wilson, Richard
Wolstenholme, Dean (II)
Wootton, John

It is not clear who influenced who (Tegelberg or Cuyp); both worked at the same time and there is a certain similarity between the work of Tegelberg and the early works of Aelbert Cuyp from c. 1640 (Van der Willigen/Kinkelder 1993/1998))

Subjects This field specifies the various subject categories or genres that constitute the oeuvre of the artist in question. The contents of this field are generally based more on the documentation available at the RKD than on the literature.: architecture (genre), animal painting (genre), interior view, landscape (genre), marine (genre), portrait, beach scene, winter landscape, farm still life
Houbraken says that Cuyp painted, besides landscapes and calm waters with ships and horses, fruit still lifes as well; however, most fruit-still lifes with the monogram A.C. are attributed now rightly to Abraham van Calraet; Reiss has selected two cattle barns that might be painted by Cuyp (Van der Willigen/Meijer 2003, p. 69).

Medium/technique: oil paint

Literature

Literature in RKDLibrary: 37 hits in RKDlibrary as subject

Houbraken 1718-1721 , vol. 1 (1718), p. 237, 248-249, col. 3 (1721), p. 292 (as: Aalbert Kuip)
Van der Aa 1852-1878 , vol. 3 (1858), p. 945-946 (as: Aelbert Cuyp)
Von Wurzbach 1906-1911 , vol. 1 (1906), p. 364-369 (as: Aelbert Cuyp)
Hofstede de Groot 1907-1928 (German edition) , vol. 2 (1908)
Thieme/Becker 1907-1950 , vol. 8 (1913), p. 227-229 (as: Cuyp, Aelbert)
Waller 1938/1974 , p. 72 (as: Cuyp, Albert)
Gerson 1942/1983 , passim
Hollstein et al. 1949-2010 , vol. 5 (1951), p. 100-103 (as: Albert Cuyp)
Bol 1973 , p. 265-269
Witt Checklist 1978 , p. 71 (as: Cuyp or Cuijp, Aelbert)
Sutton/Blankert 1987 , p. 290-304
Beck 1972-1991 , vol. 4 (1991), p. 142-143
Van der Willigen/De Kinkelder (typescript 1993/1998) (as: Aelbert Cuyp)
Giltaij/Kelch 1996 , p. 243-246
Saur 1992- , vol. 23 (1999), p. 235-237 (G. Seelig) (as: Cuyp, Aelbert Jacobsz.)
Harwood et al. 2002 , p. 188
Paarlberg et al. 2002 , passim
Van der Willigen/Meijer 2003 , p. 69 (as: Aelbert CUYP)
Peters/Goede/Alleblas 2005 , passim
Bergvelt/Jonker 2016 , p. 56-66
De Beer et al. 2019 , vol. 2, p. 627-631 (J. van der Veen)
Horn/Van Leeuwen 2021 [Houbraken Translated]

'Aelbert Cuyp', The Illustrated Magazine of Art 3/4 (1854), p. 113-124
G.H. Veth, 'Aelbert Cuyp, Jacob Gerritsz Cuyp en Benjamin Cuyp', Oud-Holland 2 (1884), p. 233-290
G.H. Veth, 'Aanteekeningen omtrent eenige Dordrechtsche schilders. XIV. Aelbert Cuyp', Oud-Holland 6 (1888), p. 142-148
A. Bredius, 'De stillevenschilder Abraham (van) Calraat (1642-1722)', Oude Kunst 1 (1916), p. 90–91
C. Hofstede de Groot, 'Aelbert Cuyp of Abraham van Kalraet?', Oude Kunst 1 (1916), p. 143-145
A. Bredius, 'Aelbert Cuyp of Abraham van Kalraet?', Oude Kunst 1 (1916), p. 241–343
A. Bredius, 'Een laatste woord over de Calraet Kwestie', Oude Kunst 1 (1916), p. 293–294
C. Hofstede de Groot with a reaction by A. Bredius,'Aelbert Cuyp of Abraham van Kalraet?', Oude Kunst 1 (1916), p. 314
(note by the editors) 'De Cuyp-Calraet kwestie', Oude Kunst 1 (1916), p. 386
A. Bredius, 'Een Calraet-tentoonstelling', Oude Kunst 2 (1916–1917), p. 105–109
S.A., 'The Chronology of Aelbert Cuyp', The Burlington Magazine 81 (1942), p. 258-259
S. Reiss, 'Aelbert Cuyp', The Burlington Magazine 95 (1953), p. 42-47
F. Simpson, 'Dutch Paintings in England before 1760', The Burlington Magazine 95 (January 1953), p. 41
J. Offerhaus, 'Aelbert Cuyp, Koeien aan de waterkant', Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum 1959, p. 60-61
C.J. de Bruyn Kops, 'Kanttekeningen bij het nieuw verworven landschap van Aelbert Cuyp en enige bijzonderheden over de waardering en export van zijn werk in het verleden', Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum 13 (1965), p. 162-176
J. Nieuwstraten, 'Een ontlening van Cuyp aan Claude Lorrain', Oud Holland 80 (1965), p. 192-195
J.G. van Gelder, I. Jost, 'Vroeg contact van Aelbert Cuyp met Utrecht', in: H. Miedema et al., Miscellanea I.Q. van Regteren Altena 16-V-1969, Amsterdam 1969, p. 100-104
J.G. van Gelder, I. Jost, 'Doorzagen op Aelbert Cuyp', Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek (dedicated to prof.dr. H. Gerson) 23 (1972), p. 223-239
B. Broos, 'De totale uitverkoop van het werk van Aelbert Cuyp', Vrij Nederland 24 December 1977
H.-U. Beck, review of Wheelock et al. 2001-2002, Master Drawings 40 (2002), p. 265-268
L. de Vries, review of Wheelock et al. 2001-2002, Simiolus 29 (2002), p. 207-210
Th. Tuohy, 'Cuyp - and the British collectors', The British Art Journal 4 (2003), no. 1, p. 111-112
J. Loughman, 'New light on some portraits by Aelbert Cuyp', The Burlington Magazine 150 (2008), p. 584-591
M. Spring, L. Keith, 'Aelbert Cuyp's Large Dort: Colour Change and Conservation', National Gallery Technical Bulletin 30 (2009), p. 71-85
S. Paarlberg, 'Een landschap van Richard Farrington en de impact van Aelbert Cuyp', in: Ch. Dumas et al. (eds), Liber Amicorum Marijke de Kinkelder. Collegiale bijdragen over landschappen, marines en architectuur, The Hague 2013, p. 275-282
M. Bijl, W. Kloek, 'A painting re-attributed to Aelbert Cuyp: connoisseurship and technical research', The Burlington Magazine 156 (2014), no. 1331, p. 91-98

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Archive location: archief Le Roy
Project: Gerson Digital : Germany
Gerson Digital : United Kingdom

External links: this artist in Ecartico
Cuyp's baptism date, in the Dordrecht archive, scan no. 0164, f. 12v.
Cuyp's burial date in the Dordrecht archive, scan no. 0150; f. 140v.
Spring/Keith 2009

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