Cuypers, Joannes Theodorus
B.1724, Dornick in Germany, d. 1808, The Hague, Netherlands.
Cuypers' earliest work dates from 1750 in the Hague. He may have been trained there by J.-J. Wattier. His style owes more to the French school than earlier indigenous Dutch makers, and reflects the influence of Guersan of Paris and Benoit Boussu of Brussels as well as Wattier. A very prolific maker and founder of a significant dynasty of Dutch makers, his workmanship is very mannered, although broadly Stradivarian in concept, and tonally very successful. Rather oval scrolls and flamboyant soundholes lie beneath a thin, hard-textured golden varnish. He was succeeded in the Hague by his sons Johannes Franciscus (1766-1828) and Johannes Bernardus (1781-1840). Although Johannes Franciscus was the better craftsman, it was Johannes Bernardus??T son, Johannes Franciscus II (1809-1881) who briefly inherited the business, but soon turned to the piano trade.
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