 An example of such later development in garland paintings is the (Staatliches Museum Schwerin), a collaboration between Ykens and Cornelis Schut.Other figure painters with whom Ykens is known to have collaborated on garland paintings include Jacob Jordaens, Erasmus Quellinus the Younger, Jan van den Hoecke, Pieter de Grebber, Thomas Willeboirts Bosschaert and Pieter van Avont.He probably also collaborated with Peter Paul Rubens.