Jan Weenix
Master of dead game paintings
Jan Weenix or Joannis Wenix was a Dutch painter. He was trained by his father, Jan Baptist Weenix, together with his cousin Melchior d'Hondecoeter. Like his 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. Many pictures in this genre formerly ascribed to the elder Weenix are now generally considered to be the works of the son. Weenix was a member of the Utrecht guild of painters in 1664 and 1668. By the age of twenty Jan Weenix rivalled and then subsequently surpassed his father in breadth of treatment and richness of colour. In 1697 he painted a portrait of Peter the Great, visiting the Republic to study shipbuilding, science and the art of fortification building. In Amsterdam Weenix was frequently employed to decorate private houses with wall-paintings on canvas.
Relationship Network
Master student
- Jan Baptist Weenix Parent
- Gabriel Metsu Master
Fellow student
Parent child
- Jan Baptist Weenix Parent
Artworks by this artist (52 total)
- A Family Portrait On The Grounds Of A Villa With An Italianate Harbor Scene Beyond
- La Partie de plaisir 1667
- A Trompe L’oeil with A Boy And A Monkey, A Formal Italianate Garden Beyond
- A Monkey and a Dog with Dead Game and Fruit 1704
- Portrait of a Greyhound and Spaniel 1665 - 1680
- Koolmees 1650 - 1719
- A Seated Monkey before 1685
- A Boy And A Dog With A Still Life Of Game, In A Park Landscape 1719
- Still Life with Swan and Game before a Country Estate c. 1685
- Bijeneter (Merops apiaster) 1650 - 1719
- Dead Partridge Hanging from a Nail c. 1650 - 1652
- Still life 1705
- Still Life of Game including a Hare, Black Grouse and Partridge, a Spaniel looking on with a Pigeon in Flight circa 168
- Partridges, songbirds, a duck, a gun and a quailwistle in a parkland landscape 1695
- The Dutch Ambassador on his Way to Isfahan 1653 - 1659
- Portrait of a Dutch Merchant ca 1685-1688
- Fleurs et gibier mort devant un paysage 1662-1719
- A Dog with a dead Goose and Peacock (A Study of Game and Fruit) c. 1700
- Greyhound to the left
- Hunting Still Life