See also:

• JAN

JAN BAPTIST See also:

• JAN BAPTIST WEENIA (1621-1660)

WEENIA (1621-1660)  , Dutch painter, the son of an architect, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in See also:

• AMSTERDAM
• AMSTERDAM (NEw AMSTERDAM)

Amsterdam, and studied first under See also:

• JAN

Jan Micker, then at See also:

• UTRECHT
• UTRECHT, TREATY OF

Utrecht under A . See also:

• BLOEMAERT, ABRAHAM (1564—1651)

Bloemaert, and at Amsterdam under Moijaert, and finally, between 1643 and 1647, in See also:

• ROME
• ROME (Roma)

Rome . In that See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city he acquired a See also:

• GREAT

great name and worked for See also:

• POPE (Gr. irarraas, post-classical Lat. papa, father)
• POPE, ALEXANDER (1688–1744)
• POPE, ALEXANDER (1763-1835)
• POPE, JANE (1742-1818)
• POPE, JOHN (1822-1892)
• POPE, SIR THOMAS (c. 1507-1559)

Pope See also:

• INNOCENT (INNOCENTIUS)
• INNOCENT (POPES)

Innocent and See also:

• CARDINAL (Lat. cardinalis)

Cardinal Pamphili . He returned to his native See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country in 1649, in which See also:

• YEAR

year he became See also:

• MASTER (Lat. magister, related to tnagis, more, as the corresponding minister is to minus, less; the English form is due partly to the O. Eng. maegister, and partly to O. Fr. maistre, mod. maitre; cf. Du. meester, Ger. Meister, Ital. maestro)

master of the gild of St See also:

• LUKE
• LUKE, GOSPEL OF ST

Luke at Utrecht, where he died in 166o . He was a very productive and versatile painter, his favourite subjects being landscapes with ruins and large figures, seaports, and, later in See also:

• LIFE

life, large still-life pictures of dead See also:

• GAME

game . Now and then he attempted religious genre, one of the rare pieces of this See also:

• KIND (O. E. ge-cynde, from the same root as is seen in " kin," supra)

kind being the " See also:

• JACOB
• JACOB, JOHN (1812-1858)

Jacob and See also:

• ESAU

Esau " at the See also:

• DRESDEN

Dresden See also:

• GALLERY (through Ital. galleria, from Med. Lat. galeria, of which the origin is unknown)

Gallery . At the See also:

• NATIONAL

National Gallery, See also:

• LONDON

London, is a " See also:

• HUNTING (the verbal substantive from " hunt "; O. Eng. huntian, hunta; apparently connected with O. Eng. hentan, Gothic hinpan, to capture, O.H.G. hunda,booty)

Hunting See also:

• SCENE (Fr. scene, Lat. scaena, Gr. oflvil, a tent or booth, a stage or scene)

Scene " by the master, and the See also:

• GLASGOW

Glasgow Gallery has a characteristic See also:

• PAINTING

painting of ruins . Weenix is represented at most of the important See also:

• CONTINENTAL

continental galleries, notably at See also:

• MUNICH (Ger. Munchen)

Munich, See also:

• VIENNA (Ger. Wien; Lat. Vindobona)
• VIENNA, CONGRESS OF (1814-1815)

Vienna, See also:

• BERLIN
• BERLIN, CONGRESS AND TREATY OF
• BERLIN, ISAIAH (1725–1799)

Berlin, Amsterdam, and St See also:

• PETERSBURG

Petersburg . His See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief pupils were his son Jan, See also:

• BERCHEM (or BERGHHEM), NICOLAAS (162o–1683)

Berchem, and See also:

• HONDECOETER, MELCHIOR

Hondecoeter . His son, JAN WEENIX (1640-1719), was born at Amsterdam and was a member of the Utrecht gild of painters in 1664 and 1668 . Like his See also:

• FATHER

father he devoted himself to a variety of subjects, but his fame is chiefly due to his paintings of dead game and of hunting scenes . Indeed, many of the pictures of this genre, which were formerly ascribed to the See also:

• ELDER (0. Eng. ellarn; Ger. Holunder; Fr. sureau)
• ELDER (Gr. 1rpev(3iTepos)

elder Weenix, are now generally considered to be the See also:

• WORKS

works of his son, who even at the See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age of twenty rivalled, and subsequently surpassed, his father in breadth of handling and richness of See also:

• COLOUR (Lat. color, connected with celare, to hide, the root meaning, therefore, being that of a covering)

colour .

At Amsterdam he was frequently employed to decorate private houses with See also:

• WALL (O. Eng. weal, weall, Mid. Eng. wal, wane, adapted from Lat. vallum, rampart; the original O. Eng. word for a wall was wag or tenth)
• WALL, RICHARD (1694-1778)

wall-paintings on See also:

• CANVAS

canvas; and between 1702 and 1712 he was occupied with an important See also:

• SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series of large hunting pictures for the See also:

• PRINCE
• PRINCE (Lat. princeps, from primus capio, " I am the first to take "; Ital. principe, Fr. prince)

Prince See also:

• PALATINE (from Lat. palatium, a palace,)

Palatine Johann Wilhelm's See also:

• CASTLE
• CASTLE (Lat. castellum, a fort, diminutive of castra, a camp; Fr. chateau and chdtel)

castle of Bensberg, near See also:

• COLOGNE (Ger. Koln, or officially, since 1900, Coln)

Cologne . Some of these pictures are now at Munich Gallery . He died at Amsterdam in 1719 . Many of his best works are to be found in See also:

• ENGLISH

English private collections, though the National Gallery has but a single example, a painting of dead game and a See also:

• DOG

dog . Jan Weenix is well represented at the galleries of Amsterdam, The See also:

• HAGUE, THE (in Dutch, 's Gravenhage, or, abbreviated, den Haag; in Fr. La Haye; and in Late Lat. Haga Comitis)

Hague, See also:

• HAARLEM

Haarlem, See also:

• ROTTERDAM

Rotterdam, Berlin, and See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris .