Unlike most of the artists of his time in Holland, Aelbert Cuyp
(1620-1691) was highly esteemed by his contemporaries, his social
position and his good fortune in money matters freeing him from the
poverty which Hobbema and others endured. He painted portraits with
much skill, as we see from his _Portrait of a Man_ (No. 2345A) and his
_Portrait of a Boy and a Girl with a Goat_ (No. 2344); but he is best
known as a cattle painter, his sturdy cattle being artistically grouped
in thick green pastures flooded with sunshine, as in his _Herdsman
with Cattle_ (No. 2341). He attained much success also with his riding
pictures, and the _Starting for the Ride_ (No. 2342) and the _Riding
Party_ (No. 2343) are in every way preferable to his _Boats on a Rough
Sea_ (No. 2345). Following his usual habit, he has placed no date on
any of these six pictures. He had no pupil in the proper sense of the
term; but a host of imitators, such as Jacob van Stry and the much
later English Royal Academician Sidney Cooper, failed ignominiously in
their feeble attempts to copy his methods.
Jan Wynants was another landscape painter in the Haarlem School,
although he settled in Amsterdam and died there in 1682. His _Outskirts
of a Forest_ (No. 2636) is signed and dated 1668, and is superior to
the _Landscape_ (No. 2637) which bears his own signature as well as
that of Adriaen van de Velde, who on numerous occasions inserted the
figures for him. Wynants has also placed his name on a small _Landscape
with Sportsman and Falconer_ (No. 2638).
Adriaen van de Velde has been careful to sign and date each of the
seven pictures by which he is represented (Nos. 2593-2599). By Allart
van Everdingen (1621-1675), who travelled in Norway and painted rocky
scenes and waterfalls, we find two _Landscapes_ (Nos. 2365 and 2366).