Juliaen Teniers or Juliaan Teniers (Antwerp 1572–1615)[1] was a Flemish painter of figures and flower pieces. He was a member of the extended Teniers family of painters.[2]

Life

He was born in Antwerp as the son of Juliaan Teniers, originally from Ath and his father's second wife Joanna van Maelbeke. His father was a successful silk merchant who owned a house on the Handschoenmarkt in Antwerp. David had one sister and four brothers of whom David Teniers the Elder became a successful painter. He was the uncle of David Teniers the Younger.[2]

He married Suzanna Coignet, the sister of the painter Gillis II Coignet on 23 April 1595.[1] The couple had at least three children: Jan Baptist, Melchior en Joanna.[3]

Juliaan Teniers became a master of the Guild of St. Luke in 1595 and he joined the Gilde van de Armenbus (Guild of the Poor Box), a sort of collective insurance pool for artists in need which also played a social role.[4] He and his wife lived in the Koningstraat until 1597, when they bought the house De Roos in the Vaartstraat.[2] Between 1595 and 1608 he had at least eleven pupils, of whom only Gaspar van den Hoecke and his half brother David the Elder still have any claim to fame.[5]

Juliaan Teniers died shortly before 11 March 1615.[6]

Work

He was known as a figure painter and painter of flower pieces.[2] Together with David Juliaan painted scenes for plays performed during the Joyous Entry of the Archdukes in Antwerp.[7] His paintings are deemed lost and only known through inventories.[8] These inventories also make clear that he sometimes cooperated with Joos de Momper and Claes van Cleve.[9]

Sources

  • Meskens, Ad (1998). Familia Universalis: Coignet. Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerpen.
  • Rombouts, Philip Felix; van Lerius, Theodoor (1874). De liggeren en andere historische archieven der Antwerpsche Sint Lucasgilde. Baggerman.
  • van den Branden, F.J. (1883). Geschiedenis der Antwerpsche Schilderschool. J.E. Buschmann.
  • van den Broeck, L. (1987). Het beeld van de vorst in de Zuidelijke Nederlanden. onuitgegeven licentiaatsthesis, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.

References

  1. 1 2 Juliaen Teniers (I) at the Netherlands Institute for Art History
  2. 1 2 3 4 F.J. van den Branden (1883), pp.751–752.
  3. ↑ SAA (City Archives Antwerpen) Pk3473; PR1, PR8, f41, Onze-Lieve-Vrouwkerk: 19 June 1577; Notaris Ant. Jaspers 1626–32, f 149r-v; F.J. van den Branden (1883), pp.751–752.
  4. ↑ Artesis University College Dept B Bib 243(4), f40r.
  5. ↑ P. Rombouts & T. van Lerius (1874) II, pp.381, 387, 407, 408, 410, 414, 415, 417, 445.
  6. ↑ F.J. van den Branden (1883), pp.752.
  7. ↑ L. van den Broeck (1987), p. 119.
  8. ↑ F.J. van den Branden (1883), pp.751–752, Antwerpsch Archievenblad 21, p.322.
  9. ↑ F.J. van den Branden (1883), pp.751, Antwerpsch Archievenblad 21, p.322.
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