all artists,
especially the youthful aspirant, not to imitate such expedition, as
they value their reputation.

JOHN BAPTIST WEENIX, THE YOUNGER.

Was the son of the preceding, and born at Amsterdam in 1644. Possessing
less varied talent than his father; he was unrivaled in painting all
sorts of animals, huntings, dead games, birds, flowers, and fruit. He
was appointed Court painter to the Elector Palatine, with a liberal
pension, and decorated his palace at Bernsberg with many of his choicest
works. He painted in one gallery a series of pictures representing the
Hunting of the Stag; and in another the Chase of the Wild Boar, which
gained him the greatest applause. There are many of his best works in
the Dusseldorf Gallery. He painted all kinds of birds and fowls in an
inimitable manner; the soft down of the duck, the glossy plumage of the
pigeon, the splendor of the peacock, the magnificent spread of an
inanimate swan producing a flood of light, and serving as a contrast to
all the objects around it, are so attractive that it is impossible to
contemplate one of his pictures of these subjects without feeling
admiration and delight at the painter's skill in rivaling nature.

JAN STEEN.

The life of this extraordinary artist, if we are to believe his
biographers, is soon told. He was born at Leyden in 1636. He early
exhibited a passion for art, which his father, a wealthy brewer of that
city, endeavored to restrain, and afterwards apprehending that he could
not procure a comfortable subsistence by the exercise of his pencil,
established him in his own business at Delft, where, instead of
attending to his affairs, he gave himself up to dissipation, and soon
squandered his means and ruined his establishment; his indulgent parent,
after repeated attempts to reclaim him, was compelled to abandon him to
his fate. He opened a tavern, which proved more calamitous than the
former undertaking. He gave himself up entirely to reveling and
intoxication, wrought only when his necessities compelled him, and sold
his pictures to satisfy his immediate wants, and often for the most
paltry prices to escape arrest.

JAN STEEN'S WORKS.

The pictures of Jan Steen usually represent merry-makings, and the
frolics and festivities of the ale-house, which he treated with a
characteristic expression of humorous drollery, that compensated for
the vulgarity of his subjects. He sometimes painted interiors, domestic
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