Jacob Gerritsz. Cuyp

Jacob Gerritszoon Cuyp (December 1594 – 1652) was a portrait and landscape painter. He was born and died in Dordrecht, and was the half-brother of Benjamin Gerritsz Cuyp and the father of the much more famous Aelbert Cuyp.

According to Houbraken, he helped the painters Jacques de Claeuw, Isaac van Hasselt, and Cornelis Tegelberg set up a Guild of Saint Luke in Dordrecht in 1642.^[1]

External links

Artcylopedia entry
Works and literature on Jacob Gerritsz. Cuyp

References

^ (Dutch) Jakob Gerretze Kuip in De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature

Murray, P. & L. (1997). The Penguin dictionary of art and artists (7th ed.). London: Penguin Books. ISBN 0-14-051300-0.

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Name	Cuyp, Jacob Gerritsz
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Date of birth	1594
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Date of death	1652
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