Jacob Knyff English and dutch ships taking on stores at a port

Jacob Knijff (1 January 1639,

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– 1681,

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), also written Jacob Knyff, was a

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painter.

Biography

According to Houbraken he was the teacher of Johannes Gottlieb Glauber in Paris in 1671, where he attended the funeral of Nicolaes Berchem II on 4 January 1672.Jacob Knyf
in ''De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen'' (1718) by

Arnold Houbraken Arnold Houbraken (28 March 1660 – 14 October 1719) was a Dutch people, Dutch Painting, painter and writer from Dordrecht, now remembered mainly as a biographer of Dutch Golden Age painters. Life Houbraken was sent first to learn ''threadt ...

, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literatureJacob Knijff
in the

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He was the son of the painter Wouter Knijff and the older brother of painter Leendert Knijff, and is known for painting landscapes and seascapes. According to the Chiswick Pier Trust, his picture ''Corney House in Chisiwick from the River'', painted some time between1675 and 1680, is the earliest known representation of a house with a garden in

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. It depicts a walled garden with a

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on the banks of the river

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Knijff, Jacob 1639 births 1681 deaths Painters from Haarlem Dutch Golden Age painters Dutch landscape painters Dutch male painters Dutch marine artists