Description

Reference No.: 78J/ 2893

Origin: Flanders - Antwerp

Period: Late 17th century

Provenance: Private Collection

Composition: Wool and silk

Dimension: W 3.30 x H 3.05

Tapestry of Flanders finely woven in wool and silk around 1680-1690.

We have for register, the lunch at the countryside according to Teniers.

This tapestry has these borders and its original size.

Strong point: freshness of colours.

Biography:

David Teniers II, known as the Younger, born in Antwerp on 15 December 1610 and died in Brussels on 25 April 1690 (at 79 years of age), is a Flemish painter, son of David Teniers the Older and Dymphna de Wilde. He is Juliaen Teniers' nephew. He received his first painting lessons from his father, but Adriaen Brouwer's association with him was an important influence.

In 1632, he became a member of the Antwerp Guild, specialising in small religious formats and genre paintings. He then bonded with Jan Brueghel the Elder, known as the Velvet Elder, and in 1637 he married his daughter Anne for the first time. At that time he received several public subsidies, including those for the position of Master of the Chapel of the Blessed Sacrament at Saint-Jacques Church, and Dean of the Guild of Saint-Luc. In 1647, he worked for Archduke Leopold-Guillaume of Habsburg when he administered the Spanish Netherlands and followed him to Brussels as a court painter in 1651.

This included the management of the Archduke's art collection. In 1660, he produced an illustrated catalogue, The Theatrum Pictorium, for which he made small copies of Italian paintings, for example Venetians of the 16th century. Much of the collection came from auctions of English nobles, which had been driven out by Puritanism. Leopold-Guillaume bequeathed this collection to his nephew Leopold I, so that it became imperial property and today represents an important part of the Vienna Museum of Art History. His work for Leopold-Guillaume earned him immense success with foreign rulers, such as Prince William II of Orange, Queen Christine of Sweden and King Philip IV of Spain. He then also worked for Don Juan of Austria, successor of Leopold-Guillaume. His production was more and more abundant and rapid and the quality of his works suffered: easier and less vigorous compositions and less delicate colours1. He married Isabelle de Fren in 1656, and had four children. In 1663, he was knighted and obtained the establishment of an Academy of Art in Antwerp2. He is the father of the painter David Teniers III.

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