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Coninxloo, van (i).
South Netherlandish family of artists. Members of at least six generations were artists, active from the late 15th century to the 17th. Jan van Coninxloo I ( fl 1490), a polychromer who may have used the surname Schernier, worked in Brussels. His sons (1) Jan van Coninxloo II and Pieter van Coninxloo I ( fl 1544) moved to Antwerp, where (2) Gillis van Coninxloo III and Hans van Coninxloo I (b before end of 1595), sons of Jan II, began their careers. Hans I moved to Emden in late middle age, acquiring citizenship there in 1571. Two of his sons, Hans van Coninxloo II (1565–c. 1620) and Isaak van Coninxloo (c. 1580–1634), moved to Amsterdam around the turn of the century, while Gillis III’s son and pupil Gillis van Coninxloo IV (1581–1619/20) was born in Antwerp shortly before religious persecution prompted that branch of the family to flee the southern Netherlands. Two of Hans II’s sons were his pupils: Hans van Coninxloo III (b c. 1589) and Pieter van Coninxloo II (1604–48), both of them painters in Amsterdam. Hans van Coninxloo IV (b 1623), son of Hans III, was, however, born in Emden. Other Flemish artists with the name van Coninxloo are known, although no family connections have been established. These include a Pieter van Coninxloo documented in Brussels in the 1470s and named in the accounts of Margaret of Austria in 1503 and 1513 in connection with portraits he had painted of members of the royal family; also Cornelis van Coninxloo I and Cornelis van Coninxloo II (see CONINXLOO, VAN (ii)), Gillis van Coninxloo I ( fl 1539–43) and his son Gillis van Coninxloo II (see family tree under BRUEGEL) and a Jan van Coninxloo active in Arras in 1599. The following members have entries:
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