was a portrait and landscape painter. He was born and died in Dordrecht, and was the half-brother of Benjamin Gerritsz Cuyp and the father of the much more famous Aelbert Cuyp.
According to Houbraken, he helped the painters Jacques de Claeuw, Isaac van Hasselt, and Cornelis Tegelberg set up a Guild of Saint Luke in Dordrecht in 1642.
Related Paintings of Jacob Gerritsz. Cuyp :. | The Guitar Player t | Roveredo portrait | Roman Carnival | Walchensee, Landhaus mit Wascheplatz | From Fra Burmeister og Wains Iron Foundry | Related Artists: Juan Vicente Masip Spanish Painter, ca.1475-1545 Lodewyck Toeput Mechin ca.1545-Treviso 1610
ludwig van beethoven Born: December 1770
Birthplace: Bonn, Germany
Died: 26 March 1827 (cirrhosis of the liver, plus dropsy)
Best Known As: The composer of Beethoven's Fifth