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Gijsbert d'Hondecoeter (1604 – 29 August 1653) was a Dutch landscape and animalier painter.
Hondecoeter belonged to a family of painters. His father was Gijsbert Gillisz d'Hondecoeter
in the RKD After he died in 1653, his brother-in-law and artist Jan Baptist Weenix continued the training of his son Melchior.
File:Gijsbert Gillisz. de Hondecoeter - Animals in the yard.jpg, ''Animals in the Yard'' (1632), oil on panel, 47.5 x 64 cm., National Museum, Kraków
File:Watervogels Rijksmuseum SK-A-1322.jpeg, ''Waterfowl'' (1652), oil on panel, 57.6 x 102.2cm., Rijksmuseum
File:Gijsbert Gillisz d' Hondecoeter - Cock and Hens in a Landscape - 405 - Mauritshuis.jpg, ''Cock and Hens in a Landscape'' (ca. 1619–53), 52 x 70 cm., Mauritshuis
Gijsbert d'Hondecoeter (1604 – 29 August 1653) was a Dutch landscape and animalier painter.
Hondecoeter belonged to a family of painters. His father was Gillis d'Hondecoeter
Gillis Claesz. de Hondecoeter or d'Hondecoeter (c. 1575-1580 – buried 17 October 1638) was a Dutch painter, working in a Flemish style, painting landscapes, trees, fowl and birds. Later on d'Hondecoeter painted in a more Dutch, realist ...
and his son was Melchior d'Hondecoeter. Hondecoeter primarily painted works of barnyard fowl. Some of his works can be found at the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam. He became a member of the Guild of St. Luke in Utrecht
Utrecht ( , , ) is the fourth-largest city and a municipality of the Netherlands, capital and most populous city of the province of Utrecht. It is located in the eastern corner of the Randstad conurbation, in the very centre of mainland Nethe ...
in 1629.in the RKD After he died in 1653, his brother-in-law and artist Jan Baptist Weenix continued the training of his son Melchior.
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1604 births 1653 deaths Dutch Golden Age painters Dutch male painters Artists from Utrecht Painters from Utrecht Dutch bird artists {{Netherlands-painter-stub