Landscape with Cattle portrait and until recently was never

and until recently was never doubted as his work

The right background

the ivory-bill is the largest of its genus in North America

Medium: Oil on canvas

African American men made up more than ten percent of the United States Army and Navy

Landscape with Cattle portrait and until recently was neverThis impressive panel bears the signature of Aelbert Cuyp, and until recently was never doubted as his work. Cuyp's paintings were widely appreciated in the eighteenth century, and attracted a number of imitators. The most capable of them, Jacob van Strij, is very probably the author of this picture. Among the qualities that indicate an eighteenth century painter are the impasto treatment of the clouds, the simplified highlights, the saturated greens