David Vinckeboons - Artist Info

About David Vinckeboons

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David Vinckboom, David Vinckboons, David Vinckebonis, David Vingboons, David Vinghboons, David Vinkenbooms
  • Biography

    David Vinckboons (baptized 13 August 1576 – c.1632 ) was a Dutch Golden Age painter born in Mechelen, Southern Netherlands. Vinckboons, whose name is often spelled as Vingboons, Vinghboons, Vinckebonis or Vinckboom, had at least ten children. His sons were the cartographer and watercolourist Johannes and the architects Justus and Philip. Vinckboons himself died in Amsterdam.

    Vinckboons was one of the most prolific and popular painters and print designers in the Netherlands. Himself influenced by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, he was instrumental — together with Hans Bol and Roelant Savery — in the development of genre painting in the northern Netherlands.
    Vinckboons was born in Mechelen. The family moved to Antwerp around 1580, and the...

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