Gillis II Coignet

Gillis II Coignet (Antwerp September 1586^[1] - Antwerp after 1641^[2]) was a Flemish history and landscape painter.

Gillis II was the son of Jacob Coignet (III) and Hester van Beringen.^[3] He married Magdalena van der Beken on 29 September 1609. He had at least nine children: Jacob, Joanna, Anna, Egidius, Hester, Barbara, Michiel, Maria, Gulielmus.^[4] He joined the Guild of St. Luke in 1607 as a master's son.^[5] He was active until at least 1641/42.

Gillis' style resembles that of Gillis van Coninxloo and the Frankenthal school. Gillis' son Jacob was also a painter.

Works

• Orpheus plays for the animals, oil on copper, diameter 39,5 cm, Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Brussel, inv. 11240 (90).
• Rural road with river, 1621, pen on parchment, verkoop P. de Boer, Amsterdam 1934.
• Adam and Eve, 37,5 x 26 cm, also ascribed to C.C. van Haarlem, Sotheby's, 20 April 1977.
• Landscape with trees, panel, 20 x 51 cm, Sotheby Parke Bernet, London, 10 December 1980.
• Riverine landscape, panel, 16 x 32 cm, Sotheby Parke Bernet, London, 16 februari 1983.
• Die Allegorie des wassers, oil on copper, 26 x 34,5 cm, also ascribed to Jan van Kessel, Dorotheum, Wien, 6 mei 1996.
• (1) Sint-Francis and the animals, oil on copper, 42,5 x 51 cm, Campo Vlaamse Kaai, Antwerpen, 10–11 December 1996.
• (2) The temptation in the Garden of Eden, oil on copper, 42,5 x 51 cm, Phillips, London,10 December 1991, samen met (1).

Sources

• Meskens, Ad (1998). Familia Universalis: Coignet. Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp. 

• Rombouts, Philip Felix; van Lerius, Theodoor (1874). De liggeren en andere historische archieven der Antwerpsche Sint Lucasgilde. Baggerman. 

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