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Abraham Teniers
Abraham Teniers (1 March 1629 – 26 September 1670) was a Flemish painter and engraver who specialized in genre paintings of villages, inns and monkey scenes. He was a member of artist family Teniers which came to prominence in the 17th century. He was also active as a publisher.
Life.
Abraham Teniers was born in Antwerp where he was baptized on 1 March 1629. He was the son of the prominent genre painter David Teniers the Elder and Dymphna Cornelisse de Wilde (also called 'Dymphna
Hendrikx'). Three of his brothers were also painters: David the Younger (1610–90) who became the most successful of the Teniers painting dynasty, Juliaan III (1616–79) and Theodoor (1619–97).
Abraham Teniers likely trained with his father and older brother David. He was admitted as a ‘wijnmeester’ (i.e. son of a master) in the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke in 1646.
Abraham married Isabelle de Roore on 16 July 1644. He was a captain of the local schutterij (civil militia