Henri Simon Hymans, Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (1888)
“ Teniers throughout triumphs in broad daylight, and, though many of his interiors may be justly termed masterpieces, they seldom equal his open-air scenes, where he has, without constraint, given full play to the bright resources of his luminous palette. ”
Henri Simon Hymans, Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (1888)
“ Some really first-rate works—the Prodigal Son and a group of Topers in the Munich gallery, as well as a party of gentlemen and ladies at dinner, termed the Five Senses, in the Brussels museum—with the above signature are remarkable instances of the perfection attained by the artist when he may be supposed to have been scarcely twenty. ”
Henri Simon Hymans, Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (1888)
“ That, however, a subject of the kind should have been accepted as a “feast” (see the National Gallery Catalogue) may tend to prove how little, from the first, Teniers thought of dramatizing. Frankness in expression and freedom in attitude certainly guided his preference in the choice of a model, and we may even suppose him to have occasionally exaggerated both. He seems anxious to have it known that, far from indulging in the coarse amusements of the boors he is fond of painting, he himself lives in good style, looks like a gentleman, and behaves as such. ”
