Reynier Covyn

Reynier Covyn (1632, Antwerp – 1681, Dordrecht), was a Dutch Golden Age genre painter.

Kitchen interior

Biography

According to Houbraken he usually painted a table with all sorts of vegetables; cabbage, carrots, celery root, artichokes, and so forth, with a servant girl carrying an egg basket or copper bucket on her arm, or a young lady sewing or doing needlework.[1] He was the brother of Israel Covyn.[1]

According to the RKD he married on 26 May 1662 in Papendrecht, and lived in 1667 in Dordrecht in the Breestraat.[2] He made a trip with his brother Israel Covyn to Antwerp in 1674.[2] He was a follower (and possibly a pupil) of Nicolaes Maes and is known for kitchen scenes, fruit still lifes, and breakfast pieces.[2]

References
  1. (in Dutch) Reynier and Isrel Covyn biography in De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature
  2. Reynier Covyn in the RKD
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