CUYP, the name of a Dutch family which produced two generations of painters. The Cuyps were long settled at Dord recht, in the neighbourhood of which they had a country house, where Albert Cuyp (the most famous) was born.
JACOB GERRITSZ CvYP, born at Dordrecht Dec. 1594, and taught by Abraham Bloemaert of Utrecht. He is known to have been alive in 1649, and the date of his death was probably 1 651 or 1652. J. G. Cuyp's pictures are little known. But he produced portraits in various forms, as busts and half-lengths thrown upon plain back grounds, or groups in rooms, landscapes and gardens. Of portrait busts there are signed examples dated 1624, 1644, 1646 and
in the museums of Berlin, Rotterdam, Marseilles, Vienna and Metz. In a family scene at the Amsterdam Museum there are likenesses of men, women, boys and girls with a cottage and park.
