(b Schoonhoven, 27 Oct 1623; d ?Hamburg, after 1651). Dutch draughtsman, etcher, painter and carpet dealer of Flemish origin. His success as an etcher is based on two series of landscape prints after his own designs, which were published in Amsterdam (Hollstein, nos 1–16), and on two other etchings (Hollstein, nos 17 and 18). These all represent hilly wooded landscapes, some with a panoramic viewpoint, and show the artist’s familiarity with both the Italianate tradition of landscape painting, practised by such artists as Jan Asselijn and Adam Pynacker, and the more Dutch works of Jacob van Ruisdael and Jacob Salomonsz. van Ruysdael (c. 1630–81). Of the 16 landscape drawings now attributed to Naiwincx, most are executed in chalk and wash (e.g. River Landscape; Paris, Fond. Custodia, Inst. Néer.); two are in pen and ink. Apart from a few drawings that evidently served as studies for etchings or paintings by the artist, his highly finished drawings must have been intended as works of art in their own right. His earliest work is thought to be a group of Dutch landscape scenes with farmhouses. Naiwincx’s paintings clearly demonstrate his eclecticism; he made ingenious use of motifs borrowed from other artists and variations on them. The clumsiness of his figures is usually not noticed because they are so tiny, except when he tried to enlarge them, as in his Baptism of the Eunuch (Paris, Louvre), where the figure group is borrowed from Rembrandt’s etching of the same subject (Hollstein, no. 98). In other paintings by Naiwincx, the figures were added by Willem Schellinks or Gerbrand van den Eeckhout. After 1651 there is no trace of Naiwincx, and his supposed residency in Hamburg could well be based on his business trips there as a merchant.