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Description: | Signed: yes Description: The son and pupil of David Teniers the Elder, Teniers was born in Antwerp and entered the Guild of St Luke in 1622/3. He later settled in Brussels where he worked for the Governors of the Netherlands. He helped establish the Académie Royale in Antwerp in 1663. He was married to the daughter of Jan Brueghel, the Elder. Teniers painted landscapes and genre scenes, becoming one of the most famous seventeenth-century genre painters. Many of his works were reproduced as engravings. He was greatly influenced in his early work by Adriaen Brouwer. The work is similar in subject matter, style and composition to other works by the artist. Many examples show peasants featured at a table either drinking or playing cards outside a tavern. The building may be a brothel, as in other works by Teniers. The facial types, verging on caricature, are also common in his art. | Subjects: | figure; landscape; everyday life; building and gardens | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Teniers, David, II (Flemish painter, 1610-1690) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8862... | Go to resource |
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