An Italian Seaport

landscape

Jan Weenix took over this subject from his father and teacher, Jan Baptist Weenix, who had been a member of the Netherlandish artists' colony in Rome in the 1640s and had made a popular subject of the southern port. Like his father's works, An Italian Seaport is characterised by a balanced relationship between landscape and coast. Warmth of colour and citations from classical architecture give the painting its Italianate character.

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About the Artist

Jan Weenix

1642 – 1719

Dutch painter, the son of Jan Baptist Weenix, and was his father's pupil with his cousin Hondecoeter. He never visited Italy, but he painted Italianate scenes like his father's and pursued more single-mindedly the still-life with flowers, animals and dead game subjects which he also took over from his father. He worked mainly in Amsterdam, but also at Bensberg and Düsseldorf for the Elector Palatine, for whom he executed a huge series of still-lifes (1702-12). There are works in Amsterdam (Rijksmuseum), Augsburg, Barnsley, Cape Town, Dresden, The Hague, London, Munich, New York (Metropolitan Museum), Oxford, Paris (Petit Palais), Toronto and elsewhere.

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