Artist Birthdays December 15 – DAVID TENIERS II
DAVID TENIERS II (December 15, 1610 – April 25, 1690)
- Nationality: Flemish
- Field: Painting
- Art Movement: Baroque
- ARTiFact: He earned a reputation for incredibly speedy workmanship, in fact, it is on record that he could finish an entire carefully executed oil painting in the late afternoon hours; these works became known as his “after dinners.”
- Notable Artwork (shown below): The Art Collection of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm in Brussels, 1651.
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