Landscape with Cattle portrait Date: 1866

Date: 1866

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

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

Landscape with Cattle portrait Date: 1866This 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