The Horses of Aelbert Cuyp

Aelbert Cuyp was a Dutch painter during the late 17th century. He came from a family of artists and grew to become a celebrated landscape artist and the most famous member of the Cuyp family.

Hard to Credit

While Cuyp was a prolific artist he rarely dated his paintings which has made it difficult to put them in chronological order. Horses are not an important part of his art, but tend to make an appearance in the idyllic pastoral or lakeside scenes he was fond of painting.

Cuyp married a wealthy widow late in his 30’s at which point he seemed to have abandoned painting altogether. His work was rediscovered by English collectors late in the 18th century.