Lucas Achtschellinck

Rocky landscape with staffage figures

Lucas Achtschellinck[1] (baptized 16 January 1626 – buried 12 May 1699) was a Flemish landscape painter.[2] He is counted among the landscape painters active in Brussels referred to as the School of Painters of the Sonian Forest who all shared an interest in depicting scenes set in the Sonian Forest, which is located near Brussels.[3]

  1. ^ Variant spellings of last name: Achtschellincks, Achtschellinckx, Achtschellincx, Aghtschellinx
  2. ^ Lucas Achtschellinck at the Netherlands Institute for Art History (in Dutch)
  3. ^ Simon Meynen, L'École des peintres de la forêt de Soignes Un paysage identitaire à Bruxelles au XVIIe, in: Koregos revue et encyclopédie multimédia des arts, 17 April 2015 (in French)

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