François van Knibbergen

Dune landscape, 1665

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

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 2 (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
1 2 François van Knibbergen in the RKD

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[Houbraken-1] 1 2 (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

[RKD-2] 1 2 François van Knibbergen in the RKD