In the history of art, David Teniers the Younger is one of the names that keeps being returned to.
The record lists David Teniers the Younger as Flemish Baroque painter (1610–1690).
David Teniers the Younger was born at Antwerp in 1610. His recorded nationality is Habsburg Netherlands.
Patronage, the guild system and a new open art market shaped what could be painted and for whom.
He worked as painter, miniaturist and printmaker.
His recorded movement is baroque.
Among his best-known works are The Fat Kitchen, The Alchemist and Country Inn. Looking is a skill, and the artists who last are those who taught their audience how to do it.
That the work was made in Habsburg Netherlands shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
David Teniers the Younger died in 1690, aged 80. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
Achievements
- Notable work: The Fat Kitchen
- Notable work: The Alchemist
- Notable work: Country Inn
- Notable work: Yard of a Peasant House
- Movement: Baroque
