Teniers

The distinction of the Teniers was the extreme fidelity and cleverness with which they copied (but did not explain) the life they knew -- the homeliest, humblest aspect of life.

The Old Masters and Their Pictures For the Use of Schools and Learners in Art Sarah Tytler 1870

The Flemish component of the collection, though fairly small, includes standout works by Jan Brueghel the Elder and David Teniers.

Collecting as a Fine Art Jonathan Lopez 2011

It was flanked by a long-necked bottle of Florence wine, by which stood a glass enarly as tall, resembling in shape that which Teniers usually places in the hands of his own portrait, when he paints himself as mingling in the revels of a country village.

The Bride of Lammermoor 2008

There were also two or three Dutch drolleries, as the pictures of Ostade and Teniers were then termed, with one good painting of the Italian school.

The Bride of Lammermoor 2008

The scales fell from his eyes on viewing the sketches of a contemporary, the Scottish Teniers, as Wilkie has been deservedly styled.

The Bride of Lammermoor 2008

She was a Fleming, who ought to have seen the light in a picture by Teniers.

La Grand Breteche 2007

Callot, the brush of Teniers and of Rembrandt, to give a true notion of this night-scene.

A Second Home 2007

She was a Fleming, who ought to have seen the light in a picture by Teniers.

La Grand Breteche 2007

Pausing before some work of Teniers, he took for his own the helmet of the soldier or the poverty of the artisan; he wished to wear a smoke-begrimed cap with these

The Magic Skin 2007

As the kind of execution to be employed by every artist depends upon the subject of which he treats — as the line of Poussin is not that of Teniers, nor the architecture of a temple that of a common house, nor music of a serious opera that of a comic one — so has each kind of writing its proper style, both in prose and verse.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007