Education
He was apprenticed to Pieter Boel in 1659.
He was apprenticed to Pieter Boel in 1659.
Recognised as a leading animal painter, de Coninck was able to develop an international career which caused him to work for extended periods in Paris, Rome and Vienna. De Coninck became a master in the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke in 1663. He moved to Paris where he worked with the prominent Flemish animal painter Nicasius Bernaerts for several years, probably until 1669.
De Coninck subsequently travelled to Rome where he lived from 1671 to 1694.
His name was inscribed in a niche in the Santa Costanza church in Rome where the Bentvueghels used to congregate. On his return to the north he stayed for a time in Vienna.
He returned to Antwerp in 1687. He moved to Brussels at some time between 1699 and 1701.
lieutenant is not known when or when he died.
He painted lively action scenes of fighting cats and dogs, packs of dogs attacking game and birds of prey or cats attacking birds or poultry. De Coninck"s work influenced other artists in Italy such as Baldassare De Caro, Giovanni Crivelli (named "il Crivellino"), Nicola Malinconico, Franz Werner von Tamm and Jacob Xavier Vermoelen.
Bentvueghels; Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke]
Nicasius Bernaerts was an influential Flemish animal painter who worked for the royal court and was a member of the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture in Paris. Here he became a member of the Bentvueghels, an association of mainly Dutch and Flemish artists working in Rome, and took the nickname (the so-called "bent name") "Rammelaer" (which means "rattle"). The last record of de Coninck is his registration as a became a member of the Brussels Guild of Saint Luke in 1701.