Carstian Luyckx
Flemish painter (1623-1657)
Carstian Luyckx, also known as the Monogrammist KL (1623 – between February 1658 and 1678), was a Flemish painter and draughtsman who specialized in various subgenres of still life painting including flower pieces, fruit still lifes, fish still lifes, pronkstillevens (sumptuous still lifes), vanitas still lifes, hunting pieces and garland paintings. He also painted animals and a few genre scenes. After starting his career in Antwerp he is believed to have worked later in France.
Life
Carstian Luyckx was born in Antwerp in 1623 as the son of David Luycx and Margriet Cloot. He was baptized on 17 August 1623. After being widowed, his mother married Theodoor de Neeff in 1637. She died before 27 October 1639, when Anthoni Raeps, the warden of her two minor children Christian and Maria Luyckx, made up the inventory of her estate. He became an apprentice in the Antwerp Guild of St. Luke in the guild year 1640-1641. He studied painting under Philips de Marlier, a still life specialist, in 1642 and under Frans Francken III, a history painter, in 1645.
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