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3 unusual facts about Jan van Kessel


Frans Francken the Younger

He also invented or popularized several new themes that became popular in Flemish painting, such as genre scenes populated by monkeys (later followed by Jan van Kessel and David Teniers the Younger) and Kunstkamer or gallery paintings displaying a wealth of natural and artistic treasures against a neutral wall.

Jan van Kessel

Jan van Kessel, junior, his son, specialized in painting flowers and insects

Jan van Kessel, senior, Flemish Baroque painter from Antwerp specialized in flower painting



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