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DAVID TENIERS
(THE YOUNGER).
David Teniers the Younger follows Rubens and Van Dyck, as the third Master of the
Belgian school of painting.
His grandfather, Julianus Tenier or Teniers (the orthography is still doubtful), an honest
shopkeeper, resided in his house, “tot den schild van Ceulen,” (the Cologne Arms) on the shoe-
market in Antwerp, and died on the 4th of May, 1585. His son, born in 1582, by his second wife
Janna van Maelbecke, became the elder David Teniers. This painter studied for a long time in Italy
and in the “atelier” of Rubens, was received, in 1606, as a free master, into the Painter’s Guild
of St. Luke, and married, on the 12th of October, 1608, Dympne Cornelissen de Wilde, daughter
of the Admiral Cornells Hendrickx and Philippine Dolyns. David Teniers the Younger was the
child of this marriage. He was born in the year 1610, and baptized in the Church of St. Jacques
on the 15th of December. David Teniers the Elder died in 1649. The transition from the
mannerisms of the older school to the style of modern times may be traced in his works. He
instructed his son, who, however far, surpassed him.
It has not been ascertained, who were the Masters of young Teniers. His Father has been
named as his teacher, and the similarity of their artistic tendencies renders this assumption very
probable. It is impossible that he should have been the scholar of Adrian Brouwer, as this
painter became a free master of the Guild of St. Luke only one year before his supposed pupil.
The fact that Rubens instructed the elder Teniers need not belie the belief that he was also the
instructor of the son. The all-surpassing fame of Rubens, and the close intercourse which was
maintained between the two families, as well as the style of the younger artist, all tend to confirm
the statement, that he received lessons in art from the head of the school.
In the year 1632 to 33, David Teniers was admitted, as the son of a Master, into the Guild
of St. Luke. After he had won much popularity by the pleasing exercise of his art (the contra-
dictory assertions of older Biographers, like many other foolish reports circulated by them, have
little foundation in fact), he took steps for the establishment of his household. On the 22nd of
July, 1637, he married Anna Breughel (who had been baptized in the Church of St. George on
the 4th of October 1620), a daughter of Breughel, a ward of Rubens. By the middle of
the year 1648, their family consisted of five children. Two more were born, one in February
1653, and another in the same month of 1655. They first saw the light in Brussels, whither,
at some time during this period (the exact date is not known), David Teniers had migrated
with his family as Court Painter to the Archduke Leopold William.
(THE YOUNGER).
David Teniers the Younger follows Rubens and Van Dyck, as the third Master of the
Belgian school of painting.
His grandfather, Julianus Tenier or Teniers (the orthography is still doubtful), an honest
shopkeeper, resided in his house, “tot den schild van Ceulen,” (the Cologne Arms) on the shoe-
market in Antwerp, and died on the 4th of May, 1585. His son, born in 1582, by his second wife
Janna van Maelbecke, became the elder David Teniers. This painter studied for a long time in Italy
and in the “atelier” of Rubens, was received, in 1606, as a free master, into the Painter’s Guild
of St. Luke, and married, on the 12th of October, 1608, Dympne Cornelissen de Wilde, daughter
of the Admiral Cornells Hendrickx and Philippine Dolyns. David Teniers the Younger was the
child of this marriage. He was born in the year 1610, and baptized in the Church of St. Jacques
on the 15th of December. David Teniers the Elder died in 1649. The transition from the
mannerisms of the older school to the style of modern times may be traced in his works. He
instructed his son, who, however far, surpassed him.
It has not been ascertained, who were the Masters of young Teniers. His Father has been
named as his teacher, and the similarity of their artistic tendencies renders this assumption very
probable. It is impossible that he should have been the scholar of Adrian Brouwer, as this
painter became a free master of the Guild of St. Luke only one year before his supposed pupil.
The fact that Rubens instructed the elder Teniers need not belie the belief that he was also the
instructor of the son. The all-surpassing fame of Rubens, and the close intercourse which was
maintained between the two families, as well as the style of the younger artist, all tend to confirm
the statement, that he received lessons in art from the head of the school.
In the year 1632 to 33, David Teniers was admitted, as the son of a Master, into the Guild
of St. Luke. After he had won much popularity by the pleasing exercise of his art (the contra-
dictory assertions of older Biographers, like many other foolish reports circulated by them, have
little foundation in fact), he took steps for the establishment of his household. On the 22nd of
July, 1637, he married Anna Breughel (who had been baptized in the Church of St. George on
the 4th of October 1620), a daughter of Breughel, a ward of Rubens. By the middle of
the year 1648, their family consisted of five children. Two more were born, one in February
1653, and another in the same month of 1655. They first saw the light in Brussels, whither,
at some time during this period (the exact date is not known), David Teniers had migrated
with his family as Court Painter to the Archduke Leopold William.