Cuyp
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The surname Cuyp is shared by three painters who lived during the Dutch Golden Age
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Dutch Golden Age
The Golden Age was a period in Dutch history, roughly spanning the 17th century, in which Dutch trade, science, military and art were among the most acclaimed in the world. The first half is characterised by the Eighty Years' War till 1648...
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- Jacob Gerritsz. Cuyp (1594–1651 or 1652)
- his half-brother Benjamin Gerritsz CuypBenjamin Gerritsz CuypBenjamin Gerritszoon Cuyp was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter.-Biography:According to Houbraken he was a pupil of his uncle, Jacob Gerritsz Cuyp, who taught him together with his son Aelbert Cuyp...
(1612–1652) - Jacob's son Aelbert CuypAelbert CuypAelbert Jacobsz Cuyp was one of the leading Dutch landscape painters of the Dutch Golden Age in the 17th century. The most famous of a family of painters, the pupil of his father Jacob Gerritsz...
(1620–1691), the most famous of the three