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Jan van Kessel the Younger (1654–1708), born in Antwerp, received his early training in the circle of his father, Jan van Kessel the Elder. Settling in Madrid in the late 1670s, he became portrait painter to Queens Maria Luisa of Orléans and Mariana of Neuburg.
Family in a Garden (1679), at the Prado, gives group portraiture an allegorical dimension: birds, plants and sculptures evoke harmony, fidelity and fertility. The oil painting is signed in Madrid; the sitters remain incompletely identified. Another work, the Procession of Carriages in the Carmen Thyssen Collection, is only attributed to him. This extensive view of the Carrera de San Jerónimo and Paseo del Prado documents the city, although its author and depicted event remain disputed.
This profile brings together identity references for Jan van Kessel the Younger and paintings, drawings and works on paper documented in auction catalogues.
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Oil on canvas
Flusslandschaft mit der Ruine von Eyckendynen bei den Haag und Fischern
Öl auf Leinwand
Auction date : 2022-11-19
Published result : 20160 EUR
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : 20000
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Oil on wood
Blumengirlande
Öl auf Holz
Catalogue period : 2022-03-23
Published result : 17317 CHF
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : CHF 10000–15000
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Oil on canvas
Weite Landschaft mit Bleichefeldern, um 1670
huile sur toile
Catalogue period : 2022-03-23
Published result : 6185 CHF
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : CHF 5000–7000
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huiles sur toile
Suiveur de Jan van Kessel — Bouquets de fleurs,
huiles sur toile
suiveur de
Catalogue period : 2017-05-06
Follower of
Published result : 3000 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 1500–2000
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