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He was born in Antwerp as the son of Johannes Ykens and his second wife Barbara Brekevelt. He was trained by his father.
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Pierre Ykens
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He was the brother of the flower painter Catherine Ykens World War II According to the French biographer Jean-Baptiste Descamps Ykens intended, like so many of his compatriots, to travel to Rome, but then got married and abandoned the idea. Descamps further writes that Ykens tried to make up for this failure to visit Italy by studying prints after Italian works, Italian antiques and plaster reliefs to hone his skills. His pupils were Karel Breydel, Erasmus Causse, Gaspaer Janssens, January Thomas van Kessel, and Jacob Leyssens.
He died in Antwerp.
As was the custom in Antwerp at the time, he often worked together with other painters who were specialists in particular genres. He is known to have collaborated with Gaspar Peeter Verbruggen and January Pauwel Gillemans the Younger, specialists in flower still lives, and Ferdinand van Kessel, a landscape artist. He painted the staffage for these artists.
He provided designs for the tapestry workshops.
He is believed to have collaborated with Pieter Spierinckx (1635–1711) on the design for Orpheus Playing the Lyre to Hades and Persephone (a scene from Orpheus and Eurydice or The Metamorphoses) which was woven around 1685 in the Wauters workshop in Antwerp.
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Netherlands