David Vinckboons
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David Vinckboons (bapt. Aug 13, 1576, Mechelen – 1632 Amsterdam) was a Dutch painter of Flemish origin.
His Protestant family moved to Antwerp around 1580, and then to Middelburg after the Spanish occupation of Antwerp in 1585 and finally to Amsterdam. He married in Leeuwarden in 1602 to Agneta van Loon. Then he lived in Sint Antoniesbreestraat like many other artists. According to Karel van Mander he did not have any teacher other than his father, a painter on canvas with watercolors, an art form practised mainly in his birthplace of Mechelen.
Vinckboons was one of the most prolific and popular painters and print designers in the Netherlands. Himself influenced by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, he was instrumental — together with Hans Bol and Roelant Savery — in the development of genre painting in the northern Netherlands. He specialized in elegant figures in park-like landscapes (Outdoor Merry Company, 1610; Vienna, Akademie der Bildenden Künste) as well as Kermis and other village festivals. His landscapes reflect his contact with Gillis van Coninxloo. Vinckboons attracted a number of students; among them were Gillis d'Hondecoeter and probably Esaias van de Velde.
His sons were the cartographer and watercolourist Johannes and the architects Justus and Philip. His son Pieter died on Ceylon.
[edit] References
- Liedtke, W. (2007) Dutch paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, p. 913.
- Sutton, P. C. (ed.), Masters of Seventeenth-Century Dutch Genre Painting, exhib. cat. 1984 (Philadelphia Mus.; Berlin, Gemäldegal.; London, RA)
