Alexander Keirincx was a Flemish Baroque painter who spent his later career in the Dutch Republic

Dutch Republic

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. He became a master in Antwerp's guild of St. Luke in 1619, and like his teacher Abraham Govaerts

Abraham Govaerts

Abraham Govaerts was a Flemish Baroque painter who specialized in small cabinet-sized forest landscapes in the manner of Jan Brueghel the Elder and Gillis van Coninxloo. He became a master in Antwerp's guild of St. Luke in 1607–1608, and subsequently trained several other painters in including...

 he initially specialized in small cabinet-sized

Cabinet painting

A cabinet painting is a small painting, typically no larger than about two feet in either dimension, but often much smaller. The term is especially used of paintings that show full-length figures at a small scale, as opposed to say a head painted nearly life-size, and that are painted very...

 forest landscape

Landscape

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s in the manner of Jan Brueghel the Elder

Jan Brueghel the Elder

Jan Brueghel the Elder was a Flemish painter, son of Pieter Bruegel the Elder and father of Jan Brueghel the Younger. Nicknamed "Velvet" Brueghel, "Flower" Brueghel, and "Paradise" Brueghel, of which the latter two were derived from his floral still lifes which were his favored subjects, while the...

 and Gillis van Coninxloo

Gillis van Coninxloo

Gillis van Coninxloo was a Dutch painter of forest landscapes, the most famous member of a large family of artists. He travelled through France, and lived in Germany for several years to avoid religious persecution....

. Also like Govaerts, Keirincx's early works typically show diminutive history

History painting

History painting is a genre in painting defined by subject matter rather than an artistic style, depicting a moment in a narrative story, rather than a static subject such as a portrait...

, mythological or biblical

Christian art

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 subjects within a Mannerist

Mannerism

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 three-color universal landscape bracketed by repoussoir

Repoussoir

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 trees. However, during the 1620s his landscapes become increasingly natural. He lived in Utrecht

Utrecht (city)

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 and Amsterdam

Amsterdam

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 from 1628 until the end of his career, and made trips to England

England

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 to decorate palaces for Charles I

Charles I of England

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. The figures in his works were usually painted by collaborators such as Cornelis Poelenburg. Keirincx worked primarily as an art dealer later in life.

Sources

• Hans Devisscher, "Keirinckx [Carings; Cierings; Cierinx; Keerinckx; Keirincx; Keirings; Keyrincx], Alexander [Alexandre]," Grove Art Online. Oxford University Press
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• Hans Vlieghe (1998). Flemish Art and Architecture, 1585-1700. Pelican History of Art. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-07038-1