Gerard van Kuijl

He is known for religious and genre works in the style of Caravaggio.

[1][2] In his Teutsche Academie (1675), Von Sandrart erroneously called him "Gerard van Krick", and for centuries Van Kuijl was convoluted with a citizen from Gouda named Gijsbert van der Kuijl described by Houbraken.

[1][3] According to Houbraken, Gijsbert van der Kuijl was the travel companion of the Gouda painter Aert van Waes, who spent 11 years with him in Italy and then returned without him only to die in Gouda in 1649, while Gijsbert spent a total of 20 years in Italy and after returning north enjoyed a longer life, dying in Gouda in 1673.

In Italy he was a pupil of fellow Bentvueghel Jean Ducamps, with whom he lived from 1629 to 1631 in Rome on the Via Margutta.

[1][2] In 1641 he lived in Utrecht, but in or before 1648 he returned to his hometown, where he died at the age of 69 and his burial was prepared on 6 March 1673.