Adriaen Frans Boudewijns

[2] On 16 December 1666 Boudewijns is recorded in Paris when he entered into a 3-year contract to work in the service of the Flemish painter Adam Frans van der Meulen.

[3] He is recorded as working with van der Meulen on the design of 12 Gobelins representing the months for French King Louis XIV.

Boudewijns also travelled with Genoels to make sketches of a castle near Brussels for a design of a tapestry for the King of France.

[4] Boudewijns married the sister of Adam Frans van der Meulen called Barbe or Barbara on 12 January 1670.

Collaborations with Charles Emmanuel Biset, Pointié Dupont, his pupil Matthys Schoevaerdts and most frequently Pieter Bout are recorded.

[3][7] Boudewijns' work combines the Northern tradition of landscape painting with the Roman classicism exemplified by Claude Lorrain and Poussin.

The first type resembles the work of the Sonian Forest school of landscape painters such as Jacques d'Arthois and Cornelis Huysmans.

These painters from Brussels had a preference for depicting sand flats with deep lying roads surrounded by trees.

Finally, he made a number of village and river landscapes that recall the style of Jan Brueghel the Elder in compositional structure and technical precision.