François van Knibbergen
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François van Knibbergen (1596, The Hague – 1674), was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter.
Biography
[edit]According to Houbraken he took part in a painting contest with Jan van Goyen and Jan Porcellis.[1] Of the three finished paintings, the one done by Porcellis was considered the best.[1]
According to the RKD he was a pupil in The Hague of Michiel van den Sande from Utrecht, with whom he traveled to Rome in 1614.[2] He was back in Utrecht in 1615 and became a member of the Confrerie Pictura in the Hague in 1629.[2] His daughter Catharina also became a landscape painter.
References
[edit]- ^ a b (in Dutch) Knipbergen, van Goijen, and Parselles mentioned in De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature
- ^ a b François van Knibbergen in the RKD
External links
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