_Philip de Koninck_ (Dutch: 1619-1688).
Koninck, or Koning, was born at Amsterdam and became a pupil of
Rembrandt. He painted historical subjects and portraits, but it
is for his landscapes that he is now most admired. These are
generally expansive views in which aerial perspective is well
given: "The distances of the painters of the older schools had
been full of objects and figures as minutely rendered as those
on the foremost places, only ever so much smaller. Compare with
these distances the simply treated expanse of country offered
to view in P. de Koninck's landscapes. Here we do not have
merely a series of objects getting smaller as they recede, but
a far more generalised representation of the whole face of
nature bathed in an atmosphere in which objects are lost to
view" (Baldwin Brown's _Fine Arts_, p. 301).
There is a repetition of this picture in the Royal Museum at the Hague.
One may presume that Koninck's pictures had aristocratic purchasers;
for, unlike the painters of "pastoral landscape," he is fond of
introducing persons of distinction--here it is a hawking party; in 974
a carriage-and-six with outriders.