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Updated: June 13, 2025
"Jim Wayward and I discuss the matter every day; I don't know what he thinks he's so obstinate some days and sometimes he is irritable when Gussie Vetchen and Cuyp talk too inanely bless their hearts! I really don't know what I shall do with James Wayward. What would you suggest?" On the heels of this letter went another.
He challenged, and vanquished, each in his own peculiar field, Vandevelde on the sea, Salvator among rocks, and Cuyp on Lowland rivers; and, having done this, set himself to paint the natural scenery of skies, mountains, and lakes, which, until his time, had never been so much as attempted.
The heavy summer, as it dried up the meadows now lying dead below the ice, set free a crowded and competing world of life, which, while it gleamed very pleasantly russet and yellow for the painter Albert Cuyp, seemed wellnigh to suffocate Sebastian van Storck. Yet with all his appreciation of the national winter, Sebastian was not altogether a Hollander.
Gussie Vetchen openly admitted his distinguished consideration, and Courtlandt Classon toddled busily about Shiela's court, and even the forlorn Cuyp had become disgustingly unfaithful and no longer wrinkled his long Dutch nose into a series of white corrugations when Wayward took Miss Palliser away from him.
Little is known of Cuyp's life, and the date of his death is uncertain, farther than it was later than 1638. In affected enthusiasm, Cuyp has been called the Dutch Claude, but in reality, Cuyp surpassed, Claude in some respects. The distinction, which Mr Ruskin draws between them, is that, while Claude, in the sense of beauty, is the superior to Cuyp, in the sense of truth Claude is the inferior.
Impressionists and post-impressionists came down occasionally to stay at Flood for Sir Arthur liked to play Mæcenas and were allowed to deal quite frankly with the pictures, as they wandered round the room at dessert, cigarette in hand, pointing out the absurdities of the Cuyp and the Titian.
And what was it? It was simply a very second-rate Turner, a Turner of a bad period, with all the painter's worst faults exaggerated and over- emphasised. Of course, I am quite ready to admit that Life very often commits the same error. She produces her false Renes and her sham Vautrins, just as Nature gives us, on one day a doubtful Cuyp, and on another a more than questionable Rousseau.
Cuyp telephoned me yesterday assuring me that everything had been transferred and recorded and that my father could use everything in an emergency if it comes as you thought possible.... And I I wish to say" she went on in a curiously constrained voice "that I appreciate what you have done what you so willingly gave up " An odd smile hovered on Malcourt's lips: "Nonsense," he said.
Sir Robert Peel bought a landscape, twelve by twenty inches in size, for which he paid three hundred and fifty guineas: it was originally sold in Holland for about one English shilling! During the first century after his death no picture by Cuyp brought more than thirty florins; now they cost almost their weight in gold.
We have already spoken of the feeling of atmosphere that Cuyp and Peter de Hoogh were able to bring into their pictures.
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