Juliaen Teniers the Elder

Juliaen Teniers or Juliaan Teniers (Antwerp 1572–1615) was a Flemish painter and one of the members of the extended Teniers family of painters.

Life

Juliaan Teniers was born in Antwerp. He was the half-brother of David Teniers the Elder and the uncle of David Teniers the Younger. He married Suzanna Coignet, the sister of the painter Gillis II Coignet on 23 April 1595.^[1] He had at least three children: Jan Baptist, Melchior en Joanna.^[2]

Juliaan Teniers became a master of the Guild of St. Luke in 1595 and he joined the Armenbus.^[3] He and his wife lived in the Koningstraat until 1597, when they bought the house De Roos in the Vaartstraat.^[4] 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

Together with David Juliaan painted scenes for plays performed during the Joyous Entry of the Archdukes in Antwerp.^[7] His paintings are only known through inventories,^[8] which 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. 

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