David Teniers the Elder

David Teniers the Elder ( * 1582 in Antwerp, † July 29, 1649 ) was a Dutch painter.

Teniers was a pupil of his elder brother, Juliaen, then formed in Rome by Adam Elsheimer further and was accepted in 1606 as a free master in the Guild of St. Luke of Antwerp, where he died on 29 July 1649.

After initially large church pictures painted by dry coloring, he later turned to the landscape, the fantastic genre subjects and to the same area, which dealt with his more famous son. The images of the Father are different from those of the son by a harder and drier treatment and more pointed brushwork in less spirited characteristics.

Teniers had no greater success as a painter and got into debt. His sons, inter alia, David Teniers the Younger then came to this.

Works (selection)

• Extract of witch ( in the museum of Douai )
• Carousing farmers from the village tavern ( in the gallery ) in Darmstadt,
• The Temptation of St. Anthony ( in galleries in Berlin and Schwerin )
• Mountain landscape with castle ( in the Museum of Braunschweig )
• Eight landscapes with biblical and mythological figures ( in the imperial gallery in Vienna )