Artist

Gijsbert d'Hondecoeter

Portrait of Gijsbert d'Hondecoeter
Portrait of Gijsbert d'Hondecoeter

Dutch, 1604–1653

Gijsbert d'Hondecoeter was a Dutch Dutch Golden Age painter. 7 works are cataloged here, principally at Statens Museum for Kunst, most of them oil paintings. Gijsbert d'Hondecoeter was born in Utrecht.

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 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 in 1629.

After he died in 1653, his brother-in-law and artist Jan Baptist Weenix continued the training of his son Melchior.

Works by Gijsbert d'Hondecoeter

Collections represented

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