Jan Baptist Weenix
Jan Baptist Weenix | |
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Born | 1621 |
Died | 1659 (aged 37–38) |
Nationality | Dutch |
Known for | Painting |
Movement | Dutch Golden Age |
Children | Jan Weenix |
Jan Baptist Weenix, also spelled Jan Baptiste Weeninx[1] (1621–c. 1659), was a painter of the Dutch Golden Age. Despite his relatively brief career, he was a very productive and versatile painter. His favourite subjects were Italian landscapes with large figures among ruins, seaside views, and, later in life, large still life pictures of dead game or dogs. He was mainly responsible for introducing the Italian harbour scene into Dutch art, in mid-size paintings with a group of figures in the foreground.
Life
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Weenix was born near Amsterdam's harbour, the son of an architect.[2] He could not speak well, apparently from a medical condition, and because he very much liked to read books, his mother sent him to work for a bookseller, who was not able to deal with him. He drew whenever he could, according to Jan Weenix his son, who told the story to Arnold Houbraken.
Weenix first studied under
In 1649, he became master of the
He painted a few religious scenes, one of the rare pieces of this kind being the "Jacob and Esau" (
Public collections
Among the public collections holding works by Jan Baptist Weenix are:
- Museum de Fundatie in Zwolle, Netherlands
- Teylers Museum, in Haarlem, Netherlands
- Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, Netherlands
- Philadelphia Museum of Art in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
- Wallace Collection, London, England
References
Literature
Attribution:
- public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Weenix, Jan Baptist". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 28 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 467. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
- Anke A. Van Wagenberg-Ter Hoeven (2018) Jan Baptist Weenix & Jan Weenix: The Paintings, Zwolle: Waanders & De Kunst. ISBN 9789462621596
External links
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