This is Gerard van Kuijl

Gerard van Kuijl or Kuijll (1604, Gorinchem – 1673, Gorinchem), was a Dutch Golden Age painter. He is known for religious and genre works in the style of Caravaggio.

Van Kuijl was born upon 30 January 1604 to Frank van Kuijll and Johanna van Blockland. In his Teutsche Academie (1675), Von Sandrart erroneously called him “Gerard van Krick”, and for centuries Van Kuijl was convoluted in imitation of a citizen from Gouda named Gijsbert van der Kuijl described by Houbraken. According to Houbraken, Gijsbert van der Kuijl was the travel companion of the Gouda painter Aert van Waes, who spent 11 years in the announce of him in Italy and after that returned without him lonesome to die in Gouda in 1649, while Gijsbert spent a sum of 20 years in Italy and after returning north enjoyed a longer life, dying in Gouda in 1673.

In contrast, Gerard van Kuijl was a pupil of Gerard Honthorst in 1625 in Utrecht and never lived in Gouda. He probably left for Italy in 1627 or 1628, as in 1627 he wrote a will, perhaps in preparation for the trip. He joined the Bentvueghels like the nickname Stijgbeugel. In Italy he was a pupil of fellow Bentvueghel Jean Ducamps, with whom he lived from 1629 to 1631 in Rome upon the Via Margutta. The last evidence of his presence there was in July 1631. The adjacent year, Van Kuijl had settled once again in Gorinchem, as in 1632 he became a enthusiast of the Broederschap der Romeinen binnen Gorinchem (“Brotherhood of Romans in Gorinchem'”) and going on for that grow old he married Margaretha Dierout there. In 1641 he lived in Utrecht, but in or past 1648 he returned to his hometown, where he died at the age of 69 and his burial was prepared upon 6 March 1673.