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Description: | Teniers was the son and pupil of David Teniers the Elder. He was born in Antwerp and entered the Guild of St Luke there in 1622/3. He painted and etched landscapes and genre scenes. 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 became 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 three figures are playing at 'Hustle Cap', a game in which money is shaken to and fro' in a cap. | Subjects: | figure; everyday life; still life; interior | 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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