David de Coninck

Variant namesauktoriserad namnform: David de Coninck stavningsvariant: David del Koninck

DatesBiographical dates: c. 1644 - 1701 Dead: dead 1701 - 1705 Born: born ca 1644

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BiographyBiography: Animal- and still life painter. First recorded as a pupil of Pieter Boel at Antwerp in 1659. A master in the local guild of St. Luke in 1663, David de Coninck later left Antwerp and is reported to have worked in Paris, supposedly in the studio of Nicasius Bernaerts, until 1669. Recorded in Rome from 1671 to 1694, where he was a member of the Accademia di San Lucca and joined the Netherlandish artists’ association, the “Bentveughels”. On his way back north he spent some time in Vienna. By 1699 he was living in Brussels, where he was last recorded in 1701 on entering the local painters’ guild. De Coninck specialized in paintings of live animals and poultry in landscape and garden settings, hunting scenes and game still lifes with gun dogs in a landscape. He also painted several fruit pieces. A prolific painter, De Coninck rarely signed his works, all of which are painted on canvas, and never dated them. Throughout his career he remained a close follower of his teacher, Pieter Boel, and, especially, of the animal and still life painter Jan Fyt, whose work he emulated in composition, style and colour. Many as yet unidentified paintings by De Coninck are probably still to be sought among those attributed to these masters. De Coninck influenced a number of Italian painters, including the animal and still life painter Baldassare de Caro.

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