During his stay in Frankenthal from 1588 to 1595, he influenced several better known Flemish émigré landscape painters, who are now collectively referred to as the 'Frankenthal School'. The early 17th century art historian Karel van Mander wrote about Coninxloo in his "Schilder-boeck". Van Mander stated that Coninxloo's teacher Pieter Coeke van Aelst was his cousin, and that "I know at this time of no better landscape painter, and I notice that they are following his manner very much in Holland".