River Landscape with Horseman and Peasants by Cuyp

Acquisition of one of the greatest Dutch landscapes in Britain, Aelbert Cuyp's River Landscape with Horsemen and Peasants. C 1650s. This design is focused more directly on the landscape than in earlier paintings by Cuyp on the same scale, and the figures and animals are more minutely painted. The low sunlit mountains which dominate the peaceful scene are not a feature of the Dutch landscape, but based on mountains seen by Cuyp on his travels in the early 1650s.From the Bute collection.