Jan Baptist Weenix (1621-1660)
Jan Baptist Weenix is a painter Dutch, wire of a Architecte, born in 1621 with Amsterdam and died in 1660 with Utrecht. He studies initially under Jan Micker, then with Utrecht under Abraham Bloemaert, with Amsterdam under Nicolaes Moeyaert finally, between 1643 and 1647 with Rome. He works then for the pope Innocent X. He turns over in the Netherlands in 1647, after two years he becomes Master of the guild of Saint-Luc of Utrecht.
Weenix, in spite of its rather short career, was a productive painter attacking varied subjects. Its favorite topics are the Italian landscapes, with characters among ruins, navy and, at the end of its life, dead natures made up of dead game. It is also tested with religious compositions, one of rare works of this type is its Jacob and Esau , currently with Dresden. The National Gallery of London has a scene of hunting and the Glasgow Gallery a painting of ruins. Other works are in particular exposed with Munich, with Vienna, Berlin, Amsterdam and Saint-Pétersbourg. Its principal pupils were, in addition to his son Jan Weenix (1640-1719), Nicolaes Berchem and its nephew Melchior of Hondecoeter.
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- Translation of the article of English language of Wikipédia.
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