A new installment has appeared in the online documentation on painters of Sonian Forest School, a group of seventeenth-century landscape painters who were active in the sprawling forest near Brussels.

www.ignatiusvanderstock.net is dedicated to the work of Ignatius van der Stock (1636-1668), the fourth major figure in the group of the seventeenth century Brussels landscape painters. Van der Stock’s artistic output was limited due to his short life (he died at the age of 32). The new website presents a little more than hundred works (paintings, drawings and prints), of which twenty are signed (thirteen paintings and seven prints). These works can be accessed through lists of related collections, exhibitions and auctions. The website also includes a brief biography on the artist and a bibliography.

The current publication is a continuation of the study on painters of the Sonian Forest School, following three earlier websites on Lodewijk de Vadder, Lucas Achtschellinck, and Jacques d’Arthois. All four sites are accessible through the platform’s new main portal www.sonianforestpainters.net.

The website is an initiative of Emmanuel de Cannart d’Hamale (Law Graduate and Bachelor of Philosophy, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium), who for this edition collaborated with Erik Wauters and Philippe Dellis.