The Ford in the River

landscape

Jan Baptist Weenix was a versatile Italianate painter. He is best known for his views of the Campagna with emphasis on a mother and child seen against massive classical ruins, and fanciful Mediterranean seaports, but he also painted histories, portraits, and indoor genre scenes as well as some remarkable still-lifes with dead game. His son and pupil Jan Weenix (1642-1719) made a speciality of pictures of hunting trophies.

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About the Artist

Jan Baptist Weenix

1621 – 1660

Dutch painter, a pupil of Bloemaert who was in Italy 1642-46 and returned, calling himself "Giovanni Battista", to Holland to paint Italianate landscapes with ruins of ancient buildings and figures in modern dress, very reminiscent of the work of Berchem, who is said to have been his cousin. Later in life he changed his style entirely and painted still-life and some portraits, his very detailed style being continued by his son Jan. There are typical works in Amsterdam, Antwerp, Berlin, Brighton, Cleveland Ohio, Dresden, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Hartford Conn., London (National Gallery, Wallace Collection and Kenwood), New York (Metropolitan Museum), Paris (Louvre), Rotterdam, Utrecht and Vienna.

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