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 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...
