David ryckaert iii biography template

David ryckaert iii biography template: a Flemish painter known for

James's Church. His grandfather, David Ryckaert I, is known as ""brouwer en stoffeerder"" and frame maker, but had no artistic significance whatsoever. His oldest sister Catharina married Gonzales Coques in , who had also completed his training as a painter under David II in the s. Two years later he married Jacoba Pallemans Palmans.

Shortly afterwards the family in Antwerp acquired the house ""Het Keizershoofd"" on the corner of Arenbergstraat and Sint-Maartenstraat. He had written his will two days earlier. His inventory, drawn up on 15th October , mentions his three children and his widow as heirs. David Ryckaert III was already a sought-after painter in his lifetime.

Among his clients was Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria. After his early landscape scenes David III soon changed to genre painting. In the beginning he followed Brouwer's peasant scenes. Between and , under the influence of Teniers, he turned to moderate themes such as elegant societies and the new subject of alchemist representation.