ALBERT
Cuvi (162o-1691), the son of See also:Jacob Gerritsz by Grietche Dierichsdochter (Dierich's daughter), was See also:born at See also:Dordrecht
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He married in 1658 See also:Cornelia Bosnian, a See also:rich widow, by whom he had an only daughter
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By right of his possessions at Dordwyck, See also:Cuyp was a See also:vassal of the See also:county of See also:- HOLLAND
- HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
- HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
- HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
- HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
- HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
- HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
- HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART
Holland, and privileged to sit in the high See also:court of the See also:province
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As a See also:citizen he was sufficiently well known to be placed on the See also:list of those from whom See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William III., See also:stadtholder of the See also:Netherlands, See also:chose the regency of Dordrecht in 1672
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His See also:death, and his See also:burial on the 7th of See also:November 1691 in the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church of the Augustines of Dordrecht, are historically proved
.
But otherwise the known facts concerning his See also:life are few
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He seldom See also:dates his pictures, but it appears probable that he ceased to paint about 1675
.
It has been said that Albert was the See also:- PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)
pupil of his See also:father
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The scanty See also:evidence of Dutch See also:annalists to this effect seems confirmed by a certain coincidence in the See also:style and treatment of father and son
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That he was a pupil of See also:van See also:Goyen has been surmised on the strength of the style of his See also:early See also:works
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It has been likewise stated that Albert was skilled, not only in the See also:production of portraits, landscapes and herds, but in the See also:representation of still life
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His works are supposed to be divisible into such as See also:bear the distinctive marks C. or A
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C. in cursive characters, the letters A
.
C. in See also:Roman capitals, and the name " A
.
Cuyp
in full
.
A See also:man of Cuyp's acknowledged See also:- TALENT (Lat. talentum, adaptation of Gr. TaXavrov, balance, ! Recollections of a First Visit to the Alps (1841); Vacation Rambles weight, from root raX-, to lift, as in rXi vac, to bear, 1-aXas, and Thoughts, comprising recollections of three Continental
talent may have been versatile enough to paint in many different styles
.
But whether he was as +versatile as some critics have thought is a question not quite easy to See also:answer
.
It is to be observed that pieces assigned to Cuyp representing See also:game, See also:- SHELL
- SHELL (O. Eng. scell, scyll, cf. Du. sceel, shell, Goth. skalja, tile; the word means originally a thin flake,. cf. Swed. skalja, to peel off; it is allied to " scale " and " skill," from a root meaning to cleave, divide, separate)
shell-See also:fish and See also:fruit, and inscribed A
.
C. in Roman capitals (See also:Rotterdam, See also:Amsterdam and See also:Berlin museums), though cleverly executed, are not in See also:touch or treatment like other pictures of less dubious authenticity, signed either with C. or A
.
C. or " A
.
Cuyp " in cursive letters
.
The panels marked C. and A
.
C. in cursive are portraits or landscapes, with herds, and interiors of stables or sheds, in which there are cows, horses and poultry
.
The subjects and their handling are akin to those which strike us in panels bearing the See also:master's full
See also:signature, though characterized, as productions of an artist in the first phase of his progress would naturally be, by tones more See also:uniform, touch more See also:flat, and See also:colour more deep than we find in the delicate and subtle compositions of the painter's later See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time
.
Generally speaking, the finished examples of Cuyp's See also:middle and final See also:period all bear his full signature
.
They are all remarkable for harmonies attained by certain combinations of shade in gradations with See also:colours in contraposition
.
Albert Cuyp, a true See also:child of the Netherlands, does not seem to have wandered much beyond Rotterdam on the one See also:hand or See also:Nijmwegen on the other
.
His scenery is that of the See also:Meuse or See also:Rhine exclusively; and there is little variety to See also:notice in his views of See also:water and meadows at Dordrecht, or the bolder undulations of the Rhine See also:banks See also:east of it, except such as results from diversity of effect due to See also:change of See also:weather or See also:season or See also:hour
.
Cuyp is to the See also:river and its banks what Willem See also:Vandevelde is to See also:calm seas and See also:Hobbema to See also:woods
.
There is a See also:poetry of effect, an eternity of distance in his pictures, which no Dutchman ever expressed in a similar way
.
His landscapes sparkle with silvery sheen at early See also:morning, they are bathed in warm or sultry haze at See also:noon, or glow with See also:heat at eventide
.
Under all circumstances they have a See also:peculiar tinge of See also:auburn which is Cuyp's and Cuyp's alone
.
See also:Burger truly says van Goyen is See also:- GRAY
- GRAY (or GREY), WALTER DE (d. 1255)
- GRAY, ASA (1810-1888)
- GRAY, DAVID (1838-1861)
- GRAY, ELISHA (1835-1901)
- GRAY, HENRY PETERS (1819-18/7)
- GRAY, HORACE (1828–1902)
- GRAY, JOHN DE (d. 1214)
- GRAY, JOHN EDWARD (1800–1875)
- GRAY, PATRICK GRAY, 6TH BARON (d. 1612)
- GRAY, ROBERT (1809-1872)
- GRAY, SIR THOMAS (d. c. 1369)
- GRAY, THOMAS (1716-1771)
gray, See also:Ruysdael is See also:- BROWN
- BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-181o)
- BROWN, FORD MADOX (1821-1893)
- BROWN, FRANCIS (1849- )
- BROWN, GEORGE (1818-188o)
- BROWN, HENRY KIRKE (1814-1886)
- BROWN, JACOB (1775–1828)
- BROWN, JOHN (1715–1766)
- BROWN, JOHN (1722-1787)
- BROWN, JOHN (1735–1788)
- BROWN, JOHN (1784–1858)
- BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859)
- BROWN, JOHN (1810—1882)
- BROWN, JOHN GEORGE (1831— )
- BROWN, ROBERT (1773-1858)
- BROWN, SAMUEL MORISON (1817—1856)
- BROWN, SIR GEORGE (1790-1865)
- BROWN, SIR JOHN (1816-1896)
- BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, BART
- BROWN, THOMAS (1663-1704)
- BROWN, THOMAS (1778-1820)
- BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD (1830-1897)
- BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830)
brown, Hobbema See also:olive, but Cuyp " is blond." The utmost delicacy may be observed in Cuyp's manner of defining reflections of See also:objects in water, or of sight from water on See also:ship's sides
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He shows See also:great cleverness in throwing See also:pale-yellow clouds against clear See also:blue skies, and merging yellow mists into olive-See also:green vegetation
.
He is also very artful in varying See also:light and shade according to distance, either by interchange of See also:cloud-See also:shadow and See also:sun-gleam or by gradation of tints
.
His horses and See also:cattle are admirably See also:drawn, and they relieve each other quite as well if contrasted in See also:black and See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
white and black and red, or varied in subtler shades of red and brown
.
Rich See also:weed-growth is expressed by light but marrowy touch, suggestive of detail as well as of See also:general See also:form
.
The human figure is given with homely See also:realism in most cases, but frequently with a charming See also:elevation, when, as often occurs, the persons represented are meant to be portraits
.
Whatever the theme may be it remains impressed with the See also:character and individuality of Cuyp
.
See also:Familiar subjects of the master's earlier period are stables with cattle and horses (Rotterdam, Amsterdam, See also:Peters-See also:burg and See also:Brussels museums)
.
Occasionally he painted portraits in the bust form familiar to his father, one of which is dated 1649, and exhibited in the See also:National See also:Gallery, See also:London
.
More frequently he produced likenesses of ladies and gentlemen on horseback, in which the life and See also:dress of the period and the forms of horses are most vividly represented (See also:- BUCKINGHAM
- BUCKINGHAM, EARLS, MARQUESSES AND DUKES OF
- BUCKINGHAM, FIRST DUKE
- BUCKINGHAM, GEORGE VILLIERS, 1ST DUKE 0E1
- BUCKINGHAM, GEORGE VILLIERS, 2ND DUKE 0E1 (1628-1687)
- BUCKINGHAM, HENRY STAFFORD, 2ND DUKE OF3 (1454-1483)
- BUCKINGHAM, JAMES SILK (1786-1855)
Buckingham See also:Palace, See also:Bridgewater Gallery, Louvre and See also:Dresden Museum)
.
Later on we find him fondest of expansive scenery with meadows and cattle and flocks, or See also:rivers and See also:barges in the foreground and distances showing the towers and steeples of Dordrecht
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Cuyp was more partial to summer than to See also:winter, to noon than to See also:night, to calm than to See also:storm
.
But some of his best See also:groups are occasionally relieved on dark and gusty cloud (Louvre and Robarts's collection)
.
A few See also:capital pieces show us See also:people sledging and See also:skating or netting See also:ice-holes (Yarborough, Neeld and See also:Bedford collections)
.
A lovely " Night on the Banks of a River," in the Grosvenor collection, reminds us that Cuyp's friend and contemporary was the painter of moonlights, Aart van der See also:Neer, to whom he was equal in the production of these peculiar effects and See also:superior in the throw of figures
.
Sometimes Cuyp composed See also:fancy subjects
.
His " See also:Orpheus charming the Beasts," in the See also:Bute collection, is judiciously arranged with the familiar domestic animals in the foreground, and the See also:wild ones, to which he is a See also:comparative stranger, thrown back into the distance
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One of his rare See also:gospel subjects is " See also:- PHILIP
- PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
- PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
- PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
- PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)
Philip baptizing the See also:Eunuch " (See also:Marchmont See also:House, See also:Berwickshire), described as a See also:fine See also:work by See also:Waagen
.
The best and most attractive of Cuyp's pieces are his Meuse and Rhine landscapes, with meadows, cattle, flocks and horsemen, and occasion-ally with boats and barges
.
In these he brought together and displayed—during his middle and final period—all the skill of one who is at once a poet and a finished artist; grouping, tinting,
See also:CUZCO
touch, See also:harmony of light and shade, and true chords of colours are all combined
.
Masterpieces of acknowledged beauty are the " Riders with the Boy and Herdsman " in the National Gallery; the Meuse, with Dordrecht in the distance, in three or four varieties, in the Bridgewater, Grosvenor, Holford and Brownlow collections; the " See also:Huntsman " (See also:Ashburton); " Herdsmen with Cattle," belonging to the See also:marquess of Bute; and the " See also:Piper with Cows," in the Louvre
.
The prices paid for Cuyp's pictures in his own time were comparatively See also:low
.
In 1750, 30 florins was considered to be the highest sum to which any one of his panels was entitled
.
But in more See also:recent times the value of the pictures has naturally risen very largely
.
At the See also:sale of the Clewer collection at See also:Christie's in 1876 a small " Hilly Landscape in Morning Light " was sold for £5040, and a view on the Rhine, with cows on a See also:bank, for £3150
.
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.
A
.
C.)
See also:John See also:- SMITH
- SMITH, ADAM (1723–1790)
- SMITH, ALEXANDER (183o-1867)
- SMITH, ANDREW JACKSON (1815-1897)
- SMITH, CHARLES EMORY (1842–1908)
- SMITH, CHARLES FERGUSON (1807–1862)
- SMITH, CHARLOTTE (1749-1806)
- SMITH, COLVIN (1795—1875)
- SMITH, EDMUND KIRBY (1824-1893)
- SMITH, G
- SMITH, GEORGE (1789-1846)
- SMITH, GEORGE (184o-1876)
- SMITH, GEORGE ADAM (1856- )
- SMITH, GERRIT (1797–1874)
- SMITH, GOLDWIN (1823-191o)
- SMITH, HENRY BOYNTON (1815-1877)
- SMITH, HENRY JOHN STEPHEN (1826-1883)
- SMITH, HENRY PRESERVED (1847– )
- SMITH, JAMES (1775–1839)
- SMITH, JOHN (1579-1631)
- SMITH, JOHN RAPHAEL (1752–1812)
- SMITH, JOSEPH, JR
- SMITH, MORGAN LEWIS (1822–1874)
- SMITH, RICHARD BAIRD (1818-1861)
- SMITH, ROBERT (1689-1768)
- SMITH, SIR HENRY GEORGE WAKELYN
- SMITH, SIR THOMAS (1513-1577)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM (1813-1893)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM SIDNEY (1764-1840)
- SMITH, SYDNEY (1771-1845)
- SMITH, THOMAS SOUTHWOOD (1788-1861)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (1769-1839)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (c. 1730-1819)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (fl. 1596)
- SMITH, WILLIAM FARRAR (1824—1903)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1808—1872)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1825—1891)
- SMITH, WILLIAM ROBERTSON (1846-'894)
Smith's See also:Catalogue raisonne of the Dutch and Flemish painters, in 9 vols
.
(184o), enumerated 335 of Albert Cuyp's works, of which in 1877 See also:Sir J
.
A
.
See also:Crowe wrote in this See also:encyclopaedia that " it would be difficult now to find more than a third of them." In C
.
Hofstede de See also:Groot's Catalogue raisonne, vol. ii
.
(1909), revising Smith's, the number is extended to nearly 85o, but he accepts too readily the attributions of sale catalogues ; the work is, however, the best See also:modern authority on the painter
.
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