Landscape with Cattle portrait Brown’s grand-manner portrait of General

Brown’s grand-manner portrait of General George Eliott (1717–1790) is a great spectacle that captured both the painter and his subject at the pinnacle of their respective careers

Brown grew up in Boston and trained in London under Benjamin West

Date: 1866

Medium: Oil on canvas

Landscape with Cattle portrait Brown’s grand-manner portrait of GeneralThis 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