Aelbert Cuyp - a goodly inheritance
A visit to the National Gallery's exhibition of Aelbert Cuyp (1620-91) is an experience of calm pleasure - these peaceful sunlit paintings of the Dutch landscape hold no hint of conflict or foreboding.
Anne Roberts
So it is difficult to realise that they were painted towards the end of a long and bitter struggle for the survival of the Dutch nation - and that the centre of that struggle was the theology of the Reformation.
