Name: Benjamin Gerritsz. Cuyp (Dordrecht 1612-1652)
Brand: Fisherfolk and horsemen on a beach
Price: 14000.00 USD
Availability: SoldOut

Benjamin Gerritsz. Cuyp (Dordrecht 1612-1652)
Fisherfolk and horsemen on a beach
signed ‘cuÿp’ (lower left)
oil on canvas, unframed
36³⁄₈ x 56⁷⁄₈ in. (92.3 x 144.3 cm.)

Eric Alexander Akers-Douglas, 3rd Viscount Chilston (1910-1982), Chilston Park, Boughton Malherbe, Kent; Christie’s, London, 28 October 1966, lot 88, where acquired for 700 gns. by the present owner.

Worcester, Worcester Art Museum, 17th Century Dutch Painting: Raising the Curtain on New England Private Collections, 15 September-11 November 1979, no. 7.

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This largescale beach scene is among the most impressive of approximately twenty such paintings by Benjamin Gerritsz. Cuyp, an artist whose work predominantly consists of biblical subjects and scenes of military and peasant life (see I. Ember, 'Benjamin Cuyp, der Genremaler', Acta Historiae Artium, XXVI, 1980, pp. 72-73). Cuyp, the stepbrother and pupil of Jacob Gerritsz. Cuyp and uncle of the famed landscape painter Aelbert Cuyp, joined the Dordrecht painters guild in 1631 but moved to The Hague in 1643. It was probably around this time that he first began to paint beach scenes, as indicated by a singular view near Egmond aan Zee dated 1643 that sold Sotheby’s, London, 23 June 1937, lot 42. Indeed, the tower atop elevated dunes at right in this painting recalls contemporary views of Scheveningen, a beach town not far from The Hague.