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Teniers
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Definition:a Flemish family of 5 painters (3 Davids, an Abraham and a Juliaen). They all painted similar themes and with a similar style, mostly genre paintings depicting everyday Dutch life.
painting 1: By Abraham Teniers, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=37705950painting 2: By David Teniers the Younger, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=57235516
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In short, nothing but cruel disillusions had resulted from this trip. He had fancied a Holland after the works of Teniers and Steen, of Rembrandt and Ostade, in his usual way imagining rich, unique and incomparable Ghettos, had thought of amazing kermesses, continual debauches in the country sides, intent for a view of that patriarchal simplicity, that jovial lusty spirit celebrated by the old masters.
Joris-Karl Huysmans. À Rebours
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“I am a great bookman myself,” returned Mr. Trumbull. “I have no less than two hundred volumes in calf, and I flatter myself they are well selected. Also pictures by Murillo, Rubens, Teniers, Titian, Vandyck, and others. I shall be happy to lend you any work you like to mention, Miss Garth.”
George Eliot. Middlemarch
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The several schools of the old masters were represented by a Madonna of Raphael, a Virgin of Leonardo da Vinci, a nymph of Corregio, a woman of Titan, an Adoration of Veronese, an Assumption of Murillo, a portrait of Holbein, a monk of Velasquez, a martyr of Ribera, a fair of Rubens, two Flemish landscapes of Teniers, three little "genre" pictures of Gerard Dow, Metsu, and Paul Potter, two specimens of Gericault and Prudhon, and some sea-pieces of Backhuysen and Vernet.
Jules Verne. Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
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