
Jan Baptist Weenix Painting Reproductions Gallery 1 of 1
1621-1660Dutch Baroque Painter
Jan Baptist Weenix (1621-1660), a Dutch painter, was the son of an architect and born in Amsterdam. Because of a stroke he could not speak very well, but he very much liked to read books. His mother sent him to a booksellar, who was not able to deal with him. He seemed to be drawing whenever he could.
He first studied under Jan Micker, then in Utrecht under Abraham Bloemaert, again in Amsterdam under Claes Cornelisz. Moeyaert. Between 1643 and 1647 Weenix was in Rome. Arnold Houbraken tells us he had left the house secretly, but his wife, the daughter of Gillis d'Hondecoeter, had traced back him in Rotterdam. Then he was allowed stay away for four months. In that city he was much esteemed and worked for Pope Innocent X. He returned to Amsterdam after four years, while his wife refused to come to Rome.
In 1649 he became master of the guild of St. Luke at Utrecht. In that year he also made a portrait of Rene Descartes. When his brother-in-law Gijsbert d'Hondecoeter died, he trained his son Melchior d'Hondecoeter. He moved to a castle outside Utrecht, to concentrate on his work, where he probably died in 1660.
Weenix, despite his relatively brief career, was a very productive and versatile painter. His favourite subjects were Italian landscapes with large figures among ruins, seaside views, and, later in life, large still life pictures of dead game. Now and then he attempted religious scenes, one of the rare pieces of this kind being the "Jacob and Esau" at the Dresden Gallery. At the National Gallery, London, is a "Hunting Scene" by Weenix, and the Glasgow Gallery has a characteristic painting of ruins. Weenix is represented at most of the important continental galleries, notably at Munich, Vienna, Berlin, Amsterdam, and St Petersburg. His chief pupils were his son Jan, Berchem, and Hondecoeter.
24 Paintings of Jan Baptist Weenix
Mauritshuis Royal Picture Gallery The Hague Netherlands
Dead Partridge
$604
$52.83
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam Netherlands
A Dog and a Cat near a Partially Disembowelled Deer
$855
$108.37
Art Gallery of Ontario Toronto Canada
Still Life with Dead Hare
$955
$60.19
Cleveland Museum of Art Ohio USA
Hunters Near Ruins
$776
$55.44
Detroit Institute of Arts Michigan USA
Italian Peasants and Ruins
$710
$100.20
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam Netherlands
Johan van Twist as an Ambassador of the Dutch ...
$1440
$49.78
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam Netherlands
Liggende Bok
$611
$56.66
Detroit Institute of Arts Michigan USA
Still Life with a Dead Swan
$1013
$89.89
The State Hermitage Museum St. Petersburg Russia
The River Crossing
$758
$47.90
Philadelphia Museum of Art Pennsylvania USA
Rest on the Flight into Egypt
$576
$58.75
Schlossmuseum Schloss Friedenstein Gotha Germany
Young Blonde
$938
$47.90
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco California USA
The Goatherd
$43.91
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco California USA
La Fontaine
$43.91
National Gallery London United Kingdom
A Huntsman Cutting up a Dead Deer, with Two Deerhounds
$726
$90.65
Mauritshuis Royal Picture Gallery The Hague Netherlands
Italian Landscape with Inn and Ancient Ruins
$888
$56.36
Collection of the Prince of Liechtenstein Vaduz Liechtenstein
Dead Game Birds on a Stone Table
$639
$94.08
Collection of the Prince of Liechtenstein Vaduz Liechtenstein
Dead Game Birds
$682
$94.08
Collection of the Prince of Liechtenstein Vaduz Liechtenstein
Ruined Landscape with a Tavern
$675
$61.34
Private Collection
Figures among Ruins
$1124
$92.53
Bowdoin College Museum of Art Maine USA
Landscape with Stream and Ruins
$43.91
Metropolitan Museum of Art New York USA
An Extensive Panoramic Landscape with a Windmill
$43.91
Private Collection
A Mediterranean Harbor Scene
$1155
$68.81
Private Collection
A Still Life of a Grey-Leg Partridge
$561
$47.90
Private Collection
A Landscape with an English Springer Spaniel
$569
$63.17