TENIERS, DAVID, the younger, son of the preceding, was born at Antwerp in 1610. He received his first lessons in art from his father, who, it is said, subsequently placed him in the studio of Adrian Brauwer; but this statement can scarcely be true, for Brauwer (q.v.) was only two years older than himself. It is probable that he derived most, if not all his professional instruction from his father, to whose genius his own bore a peculiarly filial resemblance. In fact, the elder Teniers may be considered the founder of a school of which the younger is the most brilliant and prolific member. The latter, like his parent, rapidly rose into distinguished consideration,, enjoying in the course of his life the favor and friendship of the archduke Leopold, queen Christina of Sweden, Don John of Austria, the prince of Orange, the bishop of Ghent, and other dignitaries. Teniers lived for the most part in a villa on the outskirts of Malines, where be had abundant opportunities of studying closely that humble rustic life which he has so charmingly depicted in all its aspects; but he died at Brussels Feb. 11, 1685. He was
twice married—first, to a daughter of the painter Breughel (q.v.), Velvet Breughel as he was called; and again to the daughter of a councilor at the court of Brabant. The number of his pictures is something marvelous. Smith, in his Catalogue Raisonne, has carefully described 685. England is peculiarly rich in specimens, but they are also lit erally scattered over the galleries and private collections of the continent, and, in spite of their ninnber, bring great prices. They possess, but in a superlative degree, the beauties 4)f the elder Teniers's pieces. In the coloring of his skies, the sketching of his trees, the animation and grouping of his figures, we see everywhere the presence of a richer, finer, more observant and more imaginative genius.