François van Knibbergen
Illustration — Dune landscape, 1665 François van Knibbergen (1596, The Hague – 1674), was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter.
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François van Knibbergen
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- Born
- 1596 · The Hague.
- Died
- 1674
- Nationality
- Dutch Republic
- Occupation
- painter
- Known for
- Panoramic landscape
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Illustration — Dune landscape, 1665 François van Knibbergen (1596, The Hague – 1674), was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter.
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Places of work recorded in the authority are Utrecht, Rome and Milan. Works named in the authority record are Panoramic landscape. Work by François van Knibbergen is recorded in the collections of Rijksmuseum, Nationalmuseum, Museum Arnhem, Museum der bildenden Künste and Apsley House.
According to Houbraken he took part in a painting contest with Jan van Goyen and Jan Porcellis. Of the three finished paintings, the one done by Porcellis was considered the best. 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. He was back in Utrecht in 1615 and became a member of the Confrerie Pictura in the Hague in 1629. His daughter Catharina also became a landscape painter.
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1596
François van Knibbergen born at The Hague.
1674
François van Knibbergen died.
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- 1.Juan Antonio Gaya Nuño, Pintura europea perdida por España, de Van Eyck a Tiépolo, Madrid, Espasa-Calpe, 1964, p. 55.
- 2.«François van Knibbergen» en RKD.
- 3.Knibberch (François de) de jonge, Van der Aa y otros, Biographisch Woordenboek der Nederlanden, vol. X, Haarlem, 1862. La breve información puede hacer dudar, sin embargo, de que realmente se trate de la misma persona, cuyo verdadero nombre para ellos sería Knibberch y no, como según dicen se le llama equivocadamente, Knibbergen, quien habría pintado sobre todo paisajes de Alemania y Suiza.
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