Merrymaking in a Village
David Teniers d. J., Nachfolge (Antwerpen 1610 - Brüssel 1690), follower
Lot-No. 369
Proceeds : 5.000 €
1st half 18th cent. Oil/canvas, 82 x 119 cm, lo. ri. inscribed by another hand D. Teniers and indistinctly dat., some rest., relined. - Versatile Flemish painter. T. was pupil of his father of the same name. He was accepted as member of the Antwerp St. Luke's Guild, the head of which he became in 1645. In 1651 he was appointed painter to the court of archduke Leopold William in Brussels. Moreover T. was founder of the Antwerp academy in 1664. He was and is one of the most popular Flemish painters of the 17th cent. Mus.: Florence (Uffizi), St. Petersburg (Hermitage), Paris (Louvre), Madrid (Prado), Berlin (Gem.-Gal.), Dresden (Gal. Alte Meister), Vienna (Kunsthist. Mus.) a. others. Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Bénézit, Bernt a. others.
David Teniers d. J., Nachfolge: Merrymaking in a Village
David Teniers d. J., Nachfolge (Antwerpen 1610 - Brüssel 1690), follower
Merrymaking in a Village
Lot-No. 369
Proceeds : 5.000 €
1st half 18th cent. Oil/canvas, 82 x 119 cm, lo. ri. inscribed by another hand D. Teniers and indistinctly dat., some rest., relined. - Versatile Flemish painter. T. was pupil of his father of the same name. He was accepted as member of the Antwerp St. Luke's Guild, the head of which he became in 1645. In 1651 he was appointed painter to the court of archduke Leopold William in Brussels. Moreover T. was founder of the Antwerp academy in 1664. He was and is one of the most popular Flemish painters of the 17th cent. Mus.: Florence (Uffizi), St. Petersburg (Hermitage), Paris (Louvre), Madrid (Prado), Berlin (Gem.-Gal.), Dresden (Gal. Alte Meister), Vienna (Kunsthist. Mus.) a. others. Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Bénézit, Bernt a. others.
