After Jacob Gerritszoon Cuyp (1594-1652)
Artist: After Jacob Gerritszoon Cuyp (Dutch 1594-1652).
Title: Portrait of a Child (Early 17th Century).
Medium: Oil on canvas.
Framed Size: Height 50.5 cm x Width 44.5 cm x Depth 6.5 cm.
Image Size: Height 39 cm x Width 33 cm.
Condition: The painting is in good condition. The stretcher is not original to the work and is of a later date (likely 19th century). The painting has recently been cleaned and varnished, with the canvas remaining unlined. It is glazed with anti-reflective invisible ArtGlass AR70.
Provenance: Private Collection Sydney Australia.
About: This painting is after Jacob Gerritszoon Cuyp (1594-1652), Cuyp was best known for his portraits the original of this painting is held in the collection of the Städel Museum in Frankfurt. This work has the same dimensions as the original, however the original is painted on a wooden panel as opposed to oil on canvas.
This painting is significant when considering the role Jacob Gerritszoon Cuyp played in the artistic apprenticeships of some of the most significant Dutch Baroque artists of the time, namely his son Aelbert Cuyp.
With the canvas, fortunately, remaining unlined, our conservator’s opinion is that the age of the canvas is a date near to that of the original. With further consideration of the quality of the finished painting, in our opinion, it is probable to be that of a student of Cuyp or that of a follower of the period.
According to Arnold Houbraken, Jacob Gerritszoon Cuyp assisted Jacques de Claeuw, Isaac van Hasselt, and Cornelis Tegelberg in establishing the Guild of Saint Luke in Dordrecht in 1642. According to the Netherlands Institute for Art History, he was a pupil of Abraham Bloemaert in Utrecht and became a member of the Dordrecht Guild of St. Luke on 18 July 1617. Cuyp became the later teacher of the painters Ferdinand Bol, Rafaël Govertsz Camphuysen, Aelbert Cuyp, Benjamin Gerritsz Cuyp, Hendrik Dethier, Isaac van Duynen, Bastiaan Govertsz van der Leeuw, Paulus Lesire, Aert van der Neer, Pieter Hermansz Verelst, and Ary Huybertsz Verveer.