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unusual facts about Jan Baptist Weenix


Jan Baptist Weenix

Weenix moved to a castle at Vleuten outside Utrecht, to concentrate on his work or for health reasons, where he probably died in poor circumstances, at an unknown date.


Jan Vonck

According to the RKD he was the son and pupil of his father Elias Vonck, and both were known for paintings of living birds in landscapes and hunting still lifes with dead poultry after the manner of Joannes Fijt, Jan Baptist Weenix, Alexander Adriaenssen, and Melchior Hondecoeter.


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