15 Facts About Aelbert Cuyp

Aelbert Jacobszoon Cuyp was one of the leading Dutch Golden Age painters, producing mainly landscapes.

Aelbert Cuyp's family were all artists, with his uncle Benjamin and grandfather Gerrit being stained glass cartoon designers.

Aelbert Cuyp's father was his first teacher and they collaborated on many paintings throughout his lifetime.

Aelbert Cuyp is known to have been married to Cornelia Bosman in 1658, a date coinciding so directly with the end of his productivity as a painter that it has been accepted that his marriage played a role in the end of his artistic career.

The year after his marriage, Aelbert Cuyp became the deacon of the reformed church.

Houbraken recalled that Aelbert Cuyp was a devout Calvinist and the fact that when he died, there were no paintings of other artists found in his home.

Aelbert Cuyp took from van Goyen the straw yellow and light brown tones that are so apparent in his Dunes and the broken brush technique very noticeable in that same work.

Both, and subsequently Aelbert Cuyp, used the advantages of this new lighting style to alter the sense of depth and luminosity possible in a painting.

Aelbert Cuyp was one of the first Dutch painters to appreciate this new leap forward in style and while his own Both-inspired phase was quite short he did, more than any other contemporary Dutch artist, maximize the full chromatic scale for sunsets and sunrises.

Aelbert Cuyp's landscapes were based on reality and on his own invention of what an enchanting landscape should be.

Aelbert Cuyp's drawings reveal him to be a draftsman of superior quality.

Aelbert Cuyp signed many of his works but rarely dated them, so that a chronology of his career has not been satisfactorily reassembled.

At the Madrid's Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum most likely, the sole Aelbert Cuyp's painting in Spanish public collections can be seen, a Landscape with a sunset ca.

Calraet mimicked Aelbert Cuyp's style, incorporating the same aspects, and produced similar landscapes to that of the latter.

Aelbert Cuyp was active as deacon and elder of the Reformed Church.