Important Interior of a Flemish Tavern from the 17th Century - Manner of David Teniers the Younger (Antwerp, c. 1610-Brussels, 1690) Measurements: 35 x 30 cm, exterior measurements with frame: 50 x 45 cm, good condition. (Antwerp, c. 1610-Brussels, 1690). Flemish painter. Son of David Teniers I, he was baptized on December 15, 1610 in the church of Saint James in Antwerp. In his youth he followed the style of his father and that of Adam Elsheimer, but he soon specialized in genre painting, in line with the tradition of the Netherlands where the taste for this type of work was greater than in any other country. European. In 1638 he entered the Guild of Saint Luke, of which he would become dean, and was soon protected by Antonio Tries, bishop of Ghent, and later by Archduke Leopold William, appointed by Philip IV governor of the States of Flanders. Teniers collaborated in the archduke's acquisitions and contributed greatly to the formation of his fabulous art collection, acting as its curator. Thanks to this, the painter had the opportunity to know and study works by different masters, centuries, schools and genres. The cabinet paintings that Teniers made are a valuable instrument for locating the works that the archduke collected, as well as a delight for the senses due to their quality and fidelity to the originals. In them the painter appears alongside his protector and his friends, something unusual, and which constitutes a vindication of the dignity of painting similar to what would later appear in Las Meninas. In 1651 his appointment as court painter caused him to move to Brussels. The previous year he had begun work on the Theatrum Pictoricum, illustrated with two hundred and forty-four etchings of Italian paintings by the most prestigious masters of the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries, a precursor project to the current illustrated catalogues. When Leopold William left Flanders to occupy the imperial throne in 1656, this project was interrupted, as were ...