Jan Weenix was born in Amsterdam, the son of Jan Baptist Weenix, by whom he was taught. He worked in Utrecht, Amsterdam and Germany; he died in Amsterdam. He was a portrait and genre painter, and a painter of dead game.
Jan Weenix
1642 - 1719
Paintings by Jan Weenix
![A Deerhound with Dead Game and Implements of the Chase](/media/32472/n-0238-00-000015-hd.jpg?rxy=0.4989010989010989,0.38742393509127787&width=576&height=576&v=1d653cd99972970&bgcolor=fff)
A powerful hound brings life into this picture – surrounded by dead creatures, the dog pauses, head turned, alert to the call of a horn blown by the huntsman on the right. Light bounces off the belly of a hare, the flowing curve of the heron’s wing and the dog’s snout. The artist’s considerable s...
![An Italian Courtyard](/media/34633/n-6462-00-000019-hd.jpg?cc=0,0.16666666666666666,0,0&width=576&height=576&v=1d6544994c7b4b0&bgcolor=fff)
Two young lovers sit on the steps of an inn under an Italian sky, wiling away their time flirting. He gazes up at her as she dips a sweet into his glass of wine, a pearl earring lightly brushing her neck, a feather wafting over her fair curls. A young Black servant boy in magnificent uniform watc...
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