Kerstiaen de Keuninck (Flemish, 1560-1632)
Kerstiaen de Keuninck (Flemish, 1560-1632)
Kerstiaen de Keuninck (Flemish, 1560-1632)
Kerstiaen de Keuninck, was a Flemish Baroque painter who, although from Courtrai, lived in Antwerp from an early age. He was listed in 1577 as one of the recipients of the Poor-box (armenbus) of the Antwerp Guild of St Luke, where he was received as master in 1580. He married in 1585. De Keuninck took on Carel de Ferrara as an apprentice in 1599. His son Kerstiaen de Keuninck the younger (d 1642–3) became a master in 1613.