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| Artist | Cuyp, Aelbert (Dutch painter and draftsman, 1620-1691) |
| Title | Milking Time |
| Date earliest | possibly about 1780 |
| Date latest | possibly about 1830 |
| Material | oil on canvas |
| Measurements | 80 x 104 cm |
| Description | Although Aelbert Cuyp painted portraits and genre scenes, he is primarily remembered for his peaceful landscapes, bathed in golden light and populated by contented cattle, which celebrated the prosperity of the Dutch Republic. These pictures were widely collected and imitated in Britain in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; this picture appears to be a later pastiche, probably by a British painter. |
| Subject | landscape; animal (cattle) |
| Collection | Maidstone Museum and Bentlif Art Gallery |
| Current accession number | MNEMG Bentlif 64.1897.112 |
| Acquisition details | George Amatt Bentlif collection, bequeathed through his brother Samuel 1897. |
| Principal publications | Allchin, J. H., A guide to the Collections in the Museum and Bentlif Art Gallery, Maidstone, 1909, no. 64, as after A. Cuyp; Legouix, S., Foreign Paintings Catalogue, Maidstone Museum and Art Gallery, Maidstone, 1976, p. 14, as by an imitator of Aelbert Cuyp. |
| Notes |
According to Legouix (1976), this is most likely a late eighteenth- or early nineteenth-century painting in imitation of Cuyp. The handling is crude. The handwritten list of paintings in the Bentlif collection at Draycott House (1892) lists it as 'Cuyp A. Milking Time', but by 1909 it was considered an imitation of Cuyp. |
| Rights status | © Maidstone Museum and Bentlif Art Gallery |
| Author | Dr Rachel Sloan |
