Gillis van Coninxloo

[1] He was born in Antwerp and studied under Pieter Coecke van Aelst, Lenaert Kroes and Gillis Mostaert.

He exercised a strong influence on Jan Brueghel the Elder, Pieter Schoubroeck, Roelandt Savery, and other Flemish and Dutch landscape painters of this period.

A Forest Landscape of 1598 in the Liechtenstein Collection is the first work to take this approach to its extreme: the sky is only visible in a few patches between branches and a single tiny human figure reclines under a tree.

[2] This painting achieves great intensity and atmospheric quality through its fine shades of brown and green and its accentuated handling of light.

[2] The influence of his work spread in Holland by means of his designs for large-scale prints, mainly engraved by Flemish émigré printmakers Nicolaes de Bruyn and Jan van Londerseel who published in the Dutch Republic.

Portrait of Gillis van Coninxloo by Andries Jacobsz Stock , published in 1610 by Hendrik Hondius I .
Landscape with the Judgement of Paris , in Mannerist world landscape style.
Forest Landscape , 1598, Liechtenstein Collection