Editing Aelbert Cuyp (section)

==Biography==
Known as the [[Netherlands|Dutch]] equivalent of [[Claude Lorrain]], he inherited a considerable fortune. His family were all artists, with his uncle [[Benjamin Gerritsz Cuyp|Benjamin]] and grandfather [[Gerrit Gerritsz Cuyp|Gerrit]] being [[stained glass]] cartoon designers. [[Jacob Gerritszoon Cuyp]], his father, was a [[portraitist]].<ref>{{cite web |title = Aelbert Cuyp |work = The Vincent van Gogh Gallery |url = http://www.vangoghgallery.com/artistbios/Aelbert_Cuyp.html |access-date = 14 April 2007 }}</ref> Cuyp's father was his first teacher and they collaborated on many paintings throughout his lifetime.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Adams|first1=Ann Jensen|last2=Sutton|first2=Peter C.|date=June 1992|title=Masters of Dutch 17th-Century Landscape Painting|journal=The Art Bulletin|volume=74|issue=2|pages=334|doi=10.2307/3045877|issn=0004-3079|jstor=3045877}}</ref>[[Image:Aelbert Cuyp - The Maas at Dordrecht - Google Art Project.jpg|thumb|''The [[The Maas at Dordrecht|Maas at Dordrecht]]'', {{Circa|1650}}, showing the [[Meuse|Maas River]] in front of Cuyp's hometown of Dordrecht, [[National Gallery of Art]]|260x260px]]
Little is known about Aelbert Cuyp's life. Even [[Arnold Houbraken]], a noted historian of Dutch Golden Age paintings and the sole authority on Cuyp for the hundred years following his death, paints a very thin biographical picture.<ref>Wheelock, Arthur K., Jr., Aelbert Cuyp, (2001), p. 16</ref>

His period of activity as a painter is traditionally limited to the two decades between 1639 and 1660, fitting within the generally accepted limits of the Dutch Golden Age's most significant period, 1640–1665. He 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.<ref>[[#Reiss|Reiss (1975)]], p. 7</ref>

The year after his marriage, Cuyp became the deacon of the reformed church. Houbraken recalled that Cuyp was a devout Calvinist and the fact that when he died, there were no paintings of other artists found in his home.<ref>Arnold Houbraken, De groote schouburgh der nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen, (1718–1721), p. 198.</ref>