Abraham van Cuylenborch
Abraham van Cuylenborch or Cuylenberg; Cuylenburgh (1620 – 1658) was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter. • Illustration — A Tomb in a Grotto, 1641 Cuylenborch was born in Utrecht and is known for landscapes with grottoes, in the manner of Cornelis van Poelenburgh. Cuylenborch died in Utrecht.
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Abraham van Cuylenborch
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- Name
- Abraham van Cuylenborch
- Born
- 1620
- Birthplace
- Utrecht
- Died
- 22 November 1658
- Nationality
- Dutch Republic
- Occupation
- painter · draftsperson
- Languages
- Dutch
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Abraham van Cuylenborch or Cuylenberg; Cuylenburgh (1620 – 1658) was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter. • Illustration — A Tomb in a Grotto, 1641 Cuylenborch was born in Utrecht and is known for landscapes with grottoes, in the manner of Cornelis van Poelenburgh. Cuylenborch died in Utrecht.
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Biography
Biography
The recorded working language is Dutch. Places of work recorded in the authority are Utrecht. Work by Abraham van Cuylenborch is recorded in the collections of Städel Museum, Nationalmuseum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Centraal Museum and Statens Museum for Kunst.
Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Abraham van Cuylenborch • Born — 1620 • Birthplace — Utrecht • Died — 22 November 1658 • Place of death — Utrecht
Works
Works
• A tomb in a Grotto, oil on panel, 41 x 33.6 cm, 1641, Glasgow Museums • Landscape with Bacchus and the nymphs, oil on panel, 58 x 72 cm, c. 1645, Metropolitan Museum of Art • Grotto with figures, oil on panel, 32.6 x 40.3 cm, 1645–1650, Fitzwilliam Museum • Diana bathing, oil on panel, 59 x 70 cm, 1646, Galleria Borghese
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Origins and background
Origins and background
On origins, the institutional record states the following. Cuylenborch died in 1658 at Utrecht. It is also recorded that abraham van Cuylenborch was born in 1620 at Utrecht.
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q957766: Abraham van Cuylenborch
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- “Abraham van Cuylenborch”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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These works are cited by the source article, in its own numbering. They are recorded as its citations, not as sources VALÉORINE has verified.
- 1.Cita web https://www.wga.hu/bio/c/cuylenbo/biograph.html The Web gallery of Art
- 2.Cita web https://rkd.nl/explore/artists/19492 Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie
- 3.In his milieu: essays on Netherlandish art in memory of John Michael Montias.
- 4.Biographisch woordenboek der Nederlanden.
- 5.Ninfe al bagno in una grotta - Artnet.
- 6.Cita web https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abraham_van_Cuylenborch_-_Grotto_with_Figures.jpg Grotta con figure - Commons
- 7.The Borghese Gallery.
- 8.Cita web https://www.wga.hu/html/c/cuylenbo/diananym.html Diana e le sue ninfe - Web Gallery of Art
- 9.Paesaggio italiano con figure mitologiche - Artnet.
- 10.Diana e le sue compagne dopo la caccia in una grotta - Artnet.
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Wikidata, structured authority record Q957766: Abraham van CuylenborchWikimedia Foundation
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