Dutch painter, part of a family of painters, son of Nicolaas Frederik Knip. He left for Paris in 1802 and remained there for four years. He is known to have produced mostly landscape gouaches there. Although he seldom signed his work, the majority of the great quantity of landscapes with Brabant, French and Swiss motifs from the Knip workshop must be ascribed to him on stylistic grounds. Mattheus was a typical itinerant painter, assisted by his son Henri Johannes Knip, to whom he taught the elements of his craft. //