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See also: born at Brussels
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After seven years in the studio of an obscure painter named Volders, he spent four years in the See also: household of the duke of Holstein
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The next eleven years See also: Janssens passed in See also: Rome, where he took eager See also: advantage of all the See also: aids to See also: artistic study, and formed an intimacy with Tempesta, in whose landscapes he frequently inserted figures
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Rising into popularity, he painted a large number of See also: cabinet See also: historical scenes; but, on his return to Brussels, the claims of his increasing See also: family restricted him almost entirely to the larger and more lucrative See also: size of picture, of which very many of the churches and palaces of the See also: Netherlands contain examples
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In 1718 Janssens was invited to Vienna, where he stayed three years, and was made painter to the emperor
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The statement that he visited See also: England is based only upon the fact that certain fashionable interiors of the See also: time in that country have been attributed to him
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See also: Janssen's colouring was See also: good, his touch delicate and his taste refined
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