He was born in 1610 in Antwerp in the family of the painter and the paintings of David Teniers the merchant Elder (1582-1649), learned from his father in the workshop which started its activities in 1626. In the years 1632/33, David Teniers the Younger is a member of the Antwerp Guild of St.. Luke.
The young wizard works in a variety of genres, he painted portraits of historical figures, group portraits of members of the shooting guilds, religious, allegorical and mythological compositions, genre scenes, still lifes, pastoral landscapes.
In early 1630-ies Teniers is influenced by the famous master of domestic scenes, Adrian Brouwer (1605/06-1638), as evidenced by the "Peasants Playing Dice." But he gradually ceases to imitate Brouwer. To develop his own style of a young painter helps familiarity with the works of Pieter Bruegel the Elder.
In a sense, Teniers "affinity" with the tradition breygelevskogo art, thanks to his marriage in 1637 to Anna Brueghel, the granddaughter of Pieter Bruegel the Elder and the daughter of Jan Brueghel the Velvet (1568-1625). The main part of the dowry of Anne made drawings and paintings of her grandfather and father. The study of these works has been crucial in the development of genre painting of Teniers.
In the year of his marriage to Anne Breughel Teniers wrote the first painting on the theme of "Peasant Wedding." Have survived five of his compositions on this theme, including the Hermitage, performed in 1650. They Teniers, based on breygelevskoy tradition, shows a bride at a table alone, without the groom. Like Brueghel, he looks at his characters with irony. It is no coincidence many of his works, including five in the Hermitage, an essential element is attached to the wall, drawing a male head. It serves the original card Teniers and is perceived as an extra, in addition to the signature, the author's character.
With 1637 begins a mature stage of the master. Teniers creates a peaceful, quiet by nature paintings, which have no aggressive characters and conflicts, prefer to depict the action is happening not in the interior and outdoors, in nature ('peasants playing in the balls "). Creating a chronicle of the Flemish daily life, an artist with skill and colorfully detailed scenes of rural labor transfer - harvesting, sheep shearing, hunting, fishing, bleaching canvases, caring for livestock, and many others, and along with it - rest of the peasants (The Hermitage two songs in 1646 and 1648 years based on the story "Village Festival").
The work of David Teniers the Younger, from the State Hermitage Museum:
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11. The Temptation of St. Anthony
Teniers, David the Younger.
Copper, oil. 36.4 x47, 3 cm
Flanders. Mid-1640's.
Source of Entry: Meeting Count-Revolutionaries Baudouin, Paris. 1781
12. Karaul'naya
Teniers, David the Younger.
Oil on wood. 69x103 cm
Flanders. 1642
Source of Entry: Meeting of Hortense Beauharnais, Duchess of Saint-Leu in Paris. 1815
13. gamblers
Teniers, David the Younger.
Oil on canvas. 39.4x52 cm
Flanders. About 1645
Source of Entry: A collection of Sir Robert Walpole at Houghton Hall. 1779
14. Peasants Playing Dice
Teniers, David the Younger.
Oil on canvas. 26.5 h36, 4 cm
Flanders. 1640
Between 1763 and 1773
15. Peasants, bowling
Teniers, David the Younger.
Oil on canvas. 62.5x89.5 cm
Flanders. End of 1640-ies.
Source of Entry: Meeting Count-Revolutionaries Baudouin, Paris. 1783
16. The Peasant Wedding
Teniers, David the Younger.
Oil on canvas. 82x108 cm
Flanders. 1650
Source of Entry: Meeting Jacques de Julien in Paris. 1767
17. Smoker
Teniers, David the Younger.
Oil on canvas. 18.5 x22, 6 cm
Flanders. 1645
Source of Entry: Meeting Prince GA Potemkin in St. Petersburg. 1792
18. Kitchen
Teniers, David the Younger.
Oil on canvas. 171x237 cm
Flanders. 1646
Source of Entry: A collection of Sir Robert Walpole at Houghton Hall. 1779
19. Monkey in the kitchen
Teniers, David the Younger.
Oil on canvas. 36x50.5 cm
Flanders. Mid-1640's.
Source of Entry: Meeting of Hortense Beauharnais, Duchess of Saint-Leu in Paris. 1815
20. Landscape (Meeting of St. Anthony and St. Paul)
Teniers, David the Younger.
Oil on canvas. 98h157 cm
Flanders. 1650-ies.
Source of Entry: Meeting of Count Brühl in Dresden. 1769