François van Knibbergen

François van Knibbergen (1596, The Hague – 1674), was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter.

Dune landscape, 1665

Biography

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
  1. (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
  2. François van Knibbergen in the RKD


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