Abraham van Calraet

After learning to sculpt, young Abraham took to the painter's brush, and started on fruit, while helping his father, who was a wood sculptor.

[1][2] He resided throughout his life in Dordrecht, and may have been a pupil of Aelbert Cuyp, who was a generation older and had the same initials (AC).

[3] Abraham Bredius was responsible for the first "rediscovery" of this painter, re-attributing two of his still life paintings that at that time were considered to be by Cuyp.

Cornelis Hofstede de Groot strongly disagreed with him and the Cuyp-Calraet question was escalated in the Dutch newspapers after Frits Lugt announced a new Abraham Calraet painting in the Frans Hals Museum in 1915.

He was the teacher of his younger brother, the landscape painter Barent van Kalraet.