Philips KONINCK
Amsterdam 1618 - Amsterdam 1688
Biography
Philips Koninck was the most significant member of a family of artists that included his older brother Jacob, to whom he was apprenticed, and cousin Salomon, while his brother-in-law was the artist Abraham Furnerius, a pupil of Rembrandt. Although Koninck was a member of Rembrandt’s circle in Amsterdam in the 1640s, it remains unclear whether he was actually a formal pupil of the master. His earliest dated painting was executed in 1642, and while he painted various subjects, including genre scenes and portraits, he is best known today for his broad, atmospheric landscapes. As the scholar Werner Sumoswki has noted, ‘Philips Koninck’s landscapes have their origin in Rembrandt’s work of the 1640s. Influenced also by Hercules Seghers, he arrived at his own style shortly after 1650. His panoramas are among the most significant creations of Dutch seventeenth-century art.’ Koninck also collected drawings by some of his contemporaries.
