COXCIE, Jan Anthonie
(b. ~1650 Mechelen, d. 1720 Milano)
Flemish painter, who came from a painter’s family, all active in Mechelen; his father was the landscape painter Jan Coxie (1629-1670). In 1691 the city of Mechelen commissioned him to execute a portrait of King Charles II of Spain. During his career Coxcie also worked in subsequently Amsterdam around 1700, Berlin, Mainz and ultimately Milan, where he died in 1720.