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David Teniers the Younger

David Teniers the Younger (December 15, 1610 – April 25, 1690), a Flemish artist born in Antwerp, was the more celebrated son of David Teniers the Elder, almost ranking in celebrity with Rubens and Van Dyck. His son David Teniers III and his grandson David Teniers IV were also painters. His wife Anna née, Anna Breughel was the daughter of Jan Brueghel the Elder and the granddaughter of Pieter Bruegel the Elder.
Through his father, he was indirectly influenced by Elsheimer and by Rubens. The influence of Adriaen Brouwer can be traced to the outset of his career.
Teniers was chosen by the common council of Antwerp to preside over the guild of painters in 1644. The Archduke Leopold Wilhelm, who had assumed the government of the Spanish Netherlands, being a great lover of art, employed Teniers not only as a painter but as keeper of the collection of pictures he was then forming. With the rank and title of “ayuda de camara,” Teniers took up his abode in Brussels shortly after 1647.
David Teniers the Younger was honoured as one of the greatest painters in Europe. Shortly after the death of his wife in 1656, he married Isabella de Fren, daughter of the secretary of the council of Brabant, and strove his utmost to prove his right to armorial bearings. In a petition to the king he reminded him that the honour of knighthood had been bestowed upon Rubens and Van Dyck. The king at last declared his readiness to grant the request, but on the express condition that Teniers should give up selling his pictures. The condition was not complied with; but it may perhaps account for his interest in founding an academy in Antwerp strictly limited to painters and sculptors.
Teniers died in Brussels on 25 April 1690.

Twelfth night (The King drinks), 1640
Oil on canvas, 58 x 70 cm
Prado Museum, Madrid, Spain ▼

Members of Antwerp Town Council and Masters of the Armaments Guild, 1643
Oil on canvas, 135 x 183 cm
The Hermitage Museum
St. Petersburg, Russia ▼

Kitchen Scene, 1644
Oil on copper, 75 x 77.8 cm
Mauritshuis, the Hague, Netherlands ▼

Landscape in the suburbs of Brussels, 1640s
Oil on canvas transferred from wood, 26.7 x 38 cm
The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia ▼

Peasants dancing outside an inn, 1645
Oil on canvas, 135 x 205 cm
Royal collection, UK ▼

The painter and his family, 1646
Oil on panel, 38 x 58 cm
Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, Germany ▼

An old peasant caresses a kitchen maid in a stable, 1650
Oil on wood, 43 x 65 cm
National Gallery, London, UK ▼

The Art Collection of Archduke Leopold-Wilhelm in Brussels, 1651
Oil on canvas, 127 x 162.5 cm
Petworth House, The National Trust, Sussex, UK ▼

Archduke Leopold-Willem in his Art Gallery in Brussels, 1651
Oil on copper, 106 x 129 cm
Prado Museum, Madrid, Spain ▼

Smokers and drinkers
Oil on panel, 21 x 30 cm
Prado Museum, Madrid, Spain ▼

Flanders. In a peasant cottage
Oil on wood, 49 x 33.5cm
Kiev Museum of Western Art
Kiev, Ukraine ▼