Aelbert Jacobsz Cuyp (1620 - 1691)

Aelbert Jacobsz Cuyp

Aelbert Jacobsz. Cuyp was a Dutch Baroque painter, graphic artist and printmaker.

Aelbert is the successor of a dynasty of painters from Dordrecht. He was one of the leading Dutch landscape painters of the Dutch Golden Age. A pupil of his father, the painter Jacob Gerritsz. Cuyp (1594-1651), he is known primarily for his landscapes of the Dutch countryside in the light of early morning or late evening. But Aelbert Cuyp also painted canvases on biblical, mythological, and historical themes, still lifes, and portraits. The Italian style is evident in his works.