Gerard van Kuijl (1604–1673)

• Was a Dutch painter of the Golden Age.
• Van Kuijl was born on 30 January 1604 as the son of Frank van Kuijll and Johanna van Blockland.
• In his Teutsche Academie (1675) Von Sandrart wrongly called him "Gerard van Krick", and for centuries Van Kuijl was confused with a citizen from Gouda named Gijsbert van der Kuijl, described by Houbraken.
• Gerard van Kuijl, was a pupil of Gerard Honthorst in Utrecht in 1625 and never lived in Gouda.
• He probably left for Italy in 1627 or 1628, as he wrote a will in 1627, perhaps in preparation for the journey.
• He joined the Bentvueghels under the nickname Stijgbeugel.
• In Italy he was a pupil of fellow countryman Jean Ducamps.
• The last evidence of his presence there was in July 1631.
• The following year Van Kuijl had settled in Gorinchem again, in 1632 he became a member of the Brotherhood of the Romans in Gorinchem and he married Margaretha Dierout.
• In 1641 he lived in the Zuilenstraat in Utrecht, but in or before 1648 he returned to his birthplace, where he died at the age of 69.

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