10 facts about Salomon Koninck

Salomon (de) Koninck (1609 – buried 8 August 1656) was a Dutch painter of genre scenes and portraits, and an engraver.

Koninck was born in Amsterdam, the son of a goldsmith, originally from Antwerp, and was a nephew of Philips de Koninck. Salomon became a pupil of Pieter Lastman, David Colijns, François Venants and Claes Corneliszoon Moeyaert. From 1630 he was a advocate of the Sint Lucasgilde. He moved in the circles of Rembrandt and academic circles of Hendrick van Uylenburgh, making many copies of Rembrandt’s compositions. His paintings have a warm colour palette and total many “philosophers” or scholars. Perhaps one of the bigger known of these is the Philosopher once an Open Book at the Louvre that was long endorsed to Rembrandt and served as companion piece to Rembrandt’s Philosopher in Meditation.

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He married a daughter of Adriaen van Nieulandt and higher a sister of Antonie van Stralen. He died in Amsterdam in 1656.

This article is a translation from the Dutch Wikipedia.

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