Mostly known for his small-scale cabinet paintings of rustic genre scenes. This artist was alternately known as both The Elder and The Younger (also Junior and Senior) as he was both the father of David Teniers III and the son of David Teniers I. He became a master of the Antwerp Guild of St Luke in 1632–3 after an apprenticeship to his father, with whom he also collaborated. In 1637 he married Anna, the daughter and heiress of Jan Breughel I. Comment on works: Mythology; Genre; Religious; Landscapes; Portraits.

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Teniers, David, II

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Peasants Dancing and Feasting

Old Age in Search of Youth

Adam and Eve in Paradise

Guardroom with the Deliverance of Saint Peter

Landscape with Thatched Cottages

Shepherds and Sheep

The Good Samaritan

Judith with the Head of Holofernes

Guardroom

Een rokende metselaar met zijn makkers in een herberg

Boerenkermis

Peasants Dancing Outside the Crescent Tavern

Een landman met een vrouw en kind

The Temptation of St Anthony

Elderly Man Seated in a Tavern

Mannen dobbelend in een kroeg

Tavern Scene

Two Peasants with a Glass of Wine

Peasants Celebrating Twelfth Night

Peasants in a Tavern

Vista from a Grotto

Feigned Sculpted Bust of the Blessed Hieronymus Werdanus Set in a Feigned Stone Cartouche, Decorated with a Swag and Two Bunches of Flowers

The Flageolet Player