David teniers ii biography of christopher hamilton

He was an extremely versatile artist known for his prolific output. He is now best remembered as the leading Flemish genre painter of his day. He was court painter and the curator of the collection of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm , the art-loving Governor General of the Habsburg Netherlands. He created a printed catalogue of the collections of the Archduke.

His father was a painter of altarpieces and small-scale cabinet paintings. James' Church on 15 December The work of his two oldest brothers is virtually unknown. The work of his youngest brother Abraham was very close to David's own. From , David the younger studied under his father. David the younger had to make copies of old masters in order to support the family.

A David Teniers is recorded in the Antwerp records as having been issued in a passport to visit Paris. The artist likely also travelled to England as on 29 December of the same year he signed in Dover a contract with the Antwerp art dealer Chrisostomos van Immerseel, then resident in England.

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Rubens received in a commission from the Spanish king Philip IV of Spain to create a series of mythological paintings to decorate the Torre de la Parada , a hunting lodge of the king near Madrid. The mythological scenes depicted in the series were largely based on the Metamorphoses of Ovid. That painting is considered lost. Teniers married into the famous Brueghel artist family when Anna Brueghel , daughter of Jan Brueghel the Elder , became his wife on 22 July Rubens, who had been the guardian of Anna Brueghel after her father's death, was a witness at the wedding.