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David Teniers the Younger BiographyNetherlands Dutch Baroque artistborn 1610 - died 1690 Brother-in-law of:
Ambrosius Brueghel
(1617-1675). |
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In the early 1630s he became close with Brouwer, who was of great influence on him. At that period he worked in Antwerp, where, in 1632, be became member of St. Lukas Guild, and, in 1645, was elected its deacon. In 1637, David Teniers the Younger married a daughter of “Velvet Brueghel”, Ruben’s friend. The marriage appeared to be a successful financial enterprise: the dowry was serious, and besides it brought Teniers into the circle of acquaintances of the great master. |
In 1651, the Teniers moved to Brussels, where David Teniers had been appointed a court painter and the director of the art gallery of the Spanish governor-general, Archduke Leopold-Wilhelm. David Teniers the Younger was a founding member of the Antwerp Academy of Art (1663). Very productive master, he left more than 2000 works and had great success with Flemish aristocracy. He followed fashion and whims of his clients. David Teniers the Younger painted everything: genre pictures, still lifes, animals, scenes of hunt, landscapes, portraits, religious scenes and allegorical subjects. | |||||||
One of his early paintings Members of Antwerp
Town Council and Masters of the Armaments
Guild is a rare example of group portrait in
Flemish art.- David Teniers the Younger
paintings, floral oil painting His multiple pictures of scenes of popular Flemish life, painted in attractive shades of blue, red, cream and grey, with light effects and transparent shadows, are much influenced by Brouwer. Twelfth Night (The King Drinks). Kitchen Scene. Peasants Dancing outside an Inn. etc. |
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Of
particular note are his Art Gallery of
Leopold-Wilhelm pictures, which precisely
documented the famous paintings from archduke’s
collection. David Teniers the Younger also made small-scale
copies of 246 pictures from this collection,
a “photographic” record, which helped to
retrace the fate of some masterpieces. David Teniers paintings were very popular during the 18th century and all the Royal houses of Europe raced to but them. One of the best collections is in Hermitage. David Teniers the Younger died in Brussels in 1690. |
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