Benjamin Gerritsz. Cuyp
Rough Dutch Golden Age painter
Benjamin Gerritszoon Cuyp was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter. Cuyp was born and died in Dordrecht. According to Houbraken he was a pupil of his uncle, Jacob Gerritsz Cuyp, who taught him together with his son (Benjamin's cousin) Aelbert Cuyp. Houbraken felt Aelbert had neater brush strokes and Benjamin showed the rough approach of his teacher. According to the RKD, Houbraken was mistaken about the family, and Benjamin and Jacob were both born in Dordrecht as the sons of a glasspainter from Venlo named Gerrit Gerritsz Cuyp. Benjamin learned to paint from his older half-brother, Jacob Gerritsz Cuyp. He was therefore the uncle, not the cousin, of the much more famous Aelbert Cuyp. He is known for allegorical pieces, genre works, beach scenes, military scenes, and landscapes. He influenced Barent van Kalraet, and was followed by Maerten Fransz van der Hulst.
Relationship Network
Master student
- Jacob Gerritsz Cuyp Master
Fellow student
Siblings
- Jacob Gerritsz Cuyp Student
Artworks by this artist (18 total)
- Adoration Of The Shepherds 1645
- Joseph Interpreting the Dreams of the Baker and the Butler c. 1632 - c. 1640
- The Adoration of the Magi
- Adoration of the Shepherds 2
- Der Prophet Elias im Hause der Witwe von Sarepta
- Argus, Mercury And Io
- A peddler before a crowd of villagers in a town square
- A Drunken Guardroom Scene
- The Entombment c. 1640 - 1652
- Cavalry Battle
- The adoration of the shepherds
- Adoration Of The Shepherds
- Interior of a Peasant Hut c. 1645 - 1652
- Release of St. Peter from prison c. 1635
- Tobit and his Son
- The Adoration of the Shepherds 2
- Interieur met drinkende soldaten bij kaartspel
- Woman Before A Fire ca. 1640