Group Portrait: A Wedding Celebration

Flemish painter. He is said to have learnt to paint from his father, then studied with David Teniers II. In 1654 he became a member of the painters’ guild in Brussels, and from then ran a busy studio, although few of his pupils can be identified. His paintings are mostly signed with the monogram tb and dated between 1650 and 1671. He painted genre scenes of peasant life, such as kermesse and tavern scenes, in the manner of his master and of Joos van Craesbeeck. Comment on works: Interiors; Genre; Landscapes; Portraits.