Alexander Keirincx
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Alexander Keirincx, Landscape with Deer Hunt, 1630. Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp.

Alexander Keirincx (Antwerp, 23 January 1600–Amsterdam, 1652) was a Flemish Baroque painter who spent his later career in the Dutch Republic.^[1][2]. He became a master in Antwerp's guild of St. Luke in 1619,^[2] and like his teacher Abraham Govaerts he initially specialized in small cabinet-sized forest landscapes in the manner of Jan Brueghel the Elder and Gillis van Coninxloo.^[1] Also like Govaerts, Keirincx's early works typically show diminutive history, mythological or biblical subjects within a Mannerist three-color universal landscape bracketed by repoussoir trees.^[1] However, during the 1620s his landscapes become increasingly natural.^[1] He lived in Utrecht and Amsterdam from 1628 until the end of his career, and made trips to England to decorate palaces for Charles I.^[2] The figures in his works were usually painted by collaborators such as Cornelis Poelenburg.^[1] Keirincx worked primarily as an art dealer later in life.^[1]

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d e f} Vlieghe, pp. 180–182.
2. ^ ^{a b c} Devisscher.

Sources

• Hans Devisscher, "Keirinckx [Carings; Cierings; Cierinx; Keerinckx; Keirincx; Keirings; Keyrincx], Alexander [Alexandre]," Grove Art Online. Oxford University Press, [accessed November 11, 2007].
• Hans Vlieghe (1998). Flemish Art and Architecture, 1585-1700. Pelican History of Art. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 0300070381