Jan Weenix the Younger (um/c 1641 - 1719)

Son and pupil of the Italianate landscape painter Jan Baptist Weenix (1621–1660/61), Jan initially devoted himself to Italianate landscape subjects. In Rome, in 1643–1646, he joined the Schilders Bent, an informal association of Dutch and Flemish painters. His compositions focused mainly on coastal and harbour landscapes. In 1664 he became a member of the Utrecht Guild of St. Luke. It was only around 1679, under the influence of his cousin Melchior Hondecoeter (1636–1659), a famous painter of birds, that he started to specialise in opulent animal and hunting still lifes. Along with Nicolaes Berchem, Giovanni Battista Weenix (as he called himself after his years in Italy) belongs to the second generation of Italianate painters.

Author: Oehring Erika

Literature: DUCKE Astrid, HABERSATTER Thomas, OEHRING Erika: Masterworks. Residenzgalerie Salzburg. Salzburg 2015, S. 60