David de Koninck, ca. (1636 - after 1701)

• Also known as David de Coninck or as Rammelaer.
• He was a Flemish painter who specialised in still lifes.
• He was apprenticed to Pieter Boel in 1659.
• De Coninck became a master in the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke in 1663.
• He moved to Paris where he worked with the Flemish animal painter Nicasius Bernaerts for several years. 

• De Coninck travelled to Rome where he lived from 1671 to 1694. • Here he became a member of the Bentvueghels, an association of mainly Dutch and Flemish artists working in Rome, and took the nickname 'Rammelaer' (which means 'rattle').

• 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. 

• The last record of de Coninck is his registration as a became a member of the Brussels Guild of Saint Luke in 1701.

• De Coninck's work influenced other artists in Italy such as Baldassare De Caro, Giovanni Crivelli, Nicola Malinconico, Franz Werner von Tamm and Jacob Xavier Vermoelen.

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