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
- Lazuli Bunting c. 1670 - c. 1719
- Huismus 1650 - 1719
- Dead Partridge Hanging from a Nail c. 1650 - 1652
- A Monkey and a Dog with Dead Game and Fruit 1704
- Geelvoorhoofd parkiet (Bolborhyuchus aurifrons) 1650 - 1719
- Portrait of Maria Cornelisz, Wife of Silvester van Tongeren 1680 - 1719
- Still Life With Dead Rabbit And Birds 1681
- Greyhound to the left
- Landscape with Shepherd Boy
- Rietgors 1650 - 1719
- Still Life with a Hare and other Game 1697
- After the Hunt c. 1656
- Parakeet 1670 - 1719
- Hunting Still Life
- Still Life of Game including a Hare, Black Grouse and Partridge, a Spaniel looking on with a Pigeon in Flight circa 168
- A Trompe L’oeil with A Boy And A Monkey, A Formal Italianate Garden Beyond
- Dood wild, een aap, een hond en enige vogels 1650 - 1719
- Portrait of an elegantly dressed young woman in an interior
- Still life with dead swan, a peacock and a dog by a garden fountain 1684
- A partridge and fruit in a partially draped niche