Landscape with Cattle portrait African American men made up

African American men made up more than ten percent of the United States Army and Navy

Gruchy 1814–1875 Barbizon)

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

Medium: Oil on canvas

Landscape with Cattle portrait African American men made upThis 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