Nicolaas Frederick Knip

Flower painting

1741 - 1808                                                         

  

Dutch painter and

decorative artist



Baigneurs au bord d'une rivière



Nicolaas Friederick Knip was a Dutch decorative artist and, later, he became a painter.

He  was born in 1741 in Nijmegen. He died in Hertogenbosch. Around the year 1772 he began to work as a wallpaper painter in Tilburg and about 14 years later he  was active in the town of Hertogenbosch.

During his life he  worked with other artists, too,  such as Quirinus van Amelsfoort (1762–1820), to whose landscapes he sometimes added his touch.

Later he decided to concentrate painting flower and fruit subjects. Unfortunately he lost his sight in his 50s. He died in Hertogenbosch at the age of 67.

Thanks to his precious teaching, some of his own children - Henrietta Geertruij  and Josephus Augustus - became famous painters, too. And in their works it is possible to find their father's different attitudes towards the art of painting. 

 

     Still life with flowers

     by Henrietta Geertruij Knip

     (1783 - 1842)

Figuren op een landweggetje
by Josephus Augustus Knip
(1777 - 1847)

        

 

Gezicht op de brug van
Binn met de Mattehorn,
Zwitserland.
by Josephus Augustus Knip
(1777 - 1847)

Bombardment of 's-Hertogenbosch (Den Bosch)
by the French during the siège of 1794.
by  Josephus Augustus Knip,  1800