Joseph August Knip (sometimes Latinized to Josephus Augustus Knip; baptized 3 August 1777 in Tilburg – buried 1 October 1847 in Berlicum) was a Dutch painter.

Biography

Son of decorative painter Nicolaas Frederik Knip, who was his first teacher, he moved with his family to

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when he was eleven years old. In 1794, the

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besieged and captured the town. At nineteen he became the family breadwinner after his father went blind. He was the first teacher of his younger sister

Henriëtte Geertruida Knip Henriëtte Geertruida Knip (19 July 1783 – 29 May 1842) was a flower painter from the Northern Netherlands. Knip was born in Tilburg as the daughter of the painter Nicolaas Frederik Knip. After her father went blind, she followed lessons ...

. In 1801, he established himself in Paris, where he accepted commissions for topographical paintings. He also became drawing master to Napoleon III of France. He spent nine years in Paris. At the end of 1809 he went to Rome, where he remained until 1812. He also travelled, making trips to Naples, the Sabine Hills, the

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, and the Campagna. Watercolors exist from these trips, from places ranging from Palestrina to Terni. In 1813, he returned to the Netherlands with his wife, the painter

Pauline Rifer de Courcelles Pauline Knip née Pauline Rifer de Courcelles (26 July 1781 – 18 April 1851) was a French bird artist who was married to Joseph August Knip from 1808 until they divorced in 1824. Her paintings of birds, particularly the pigeons, were used in Co ...

. He settled in 's-Hertogenbosch, where he worked as a painter. He later lived in Amsterdam and in Paris. He went blind in 1832, after which he was given a

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by William I of the Netherlands. His daughter, of whom he was the first teacher, was Henriëtte Ronner-Knip, who was named after his sister.

References

*Philip Conisbee, Sarah Faunce, and Jeremy Strick. ''In the Light of Italy: Corot and Early Open-Air Painting''. New Haven; Yale University Press, 1996.
Knip, Josephus Augustus
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