Gillis II Coignet (September 1586SAA (City Archives Antwerp) PR42 C23; PR46, f309v, St-Jacobskerk: 12-9-1586; Pk3573; SR636, f1r-v. in Antwerp – after 1641 in AntwerpSAA Pk3573; N2535, dd. 6 juni 1639; V1419, dd. 22 jan 1650; N3763, dd. 25-2-1646, f34r-35r.) was a Flemish history and landscape painter.
Gillis II was the son of Jacob Coignet (III) and Hester van Beringen.SAA PR42 C23; PR46, f309v, St-Jacobskerk: 12-9-1586. Some art historians have hypothesized wrongly that he is the son of Gillis Coignet. He married Magdalena van der Beken on 29 September 1609. He had at least ten children: Jacob, Joanna, Anna, Egidius, Hester, Barbara, Michiel, Maria, Clemidya, Gulielmus.Ad Meskens (1998) p.181. He joined the Guild of St. Luke in 1607 as a master's son.P. Rombouts & T. van Lerius (1874) II, p.442 He was active until at least 1641/42.
Gillis' style resembles that of Gillis van Coninxloo and the Frankenthal school. Gillis' son Jacob was also a painter.
Works NameDatesYearsOrpheus plays for the animals, oil on copper, diameter 39,5 cm, Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Brussel, inv. 11240 (90).Rural road with river, 1621, pen on parchment, verkoop P. de Boer, Amsterdam.1934Adam and Eve, 37,5 x 26 cm, also ascribed to C.C. van Haarlem, Sotheby's.20 April 1977Landscape with trees, panel, 20 x 51 cm, Sotheby Parke Bernet, London.10 December1980Riverine landscape, panel, 16 x 32 cm, Sotheby Parke Bernet, London.16 February1983Die Allegorie des wassers, oil on copper, 26 x 34,5 cm, also ascribed to Jan van Kessel, Dorotheum, Wien.6 May1996(1) Sint-Francis and the animals, oil on copper, 42,5 x 51 cm, Campo Vlaamse Kaai, Antwerpen.10–11 December1996(2) The temptation in the Garden of Eden, oil on copper, 42,5 x 51 cm, Phillips, London together with (1).10 December 19911996Riverine landscape with trees (ascribed), oil on copper, 17,5 x 22,6 cm, De Vuyst .2015
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