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DAVID TENIERS THE YOUNGER (ANTWERP 1610-BRUSSELS 1690)

Interior of a Farmhouse with Figures ('The Stolen Kiss')

c.1660

RCIN 405342

Eighteenth-century artistic theory condemned works like this for being unidealised depictions of unworthy subjects. In spite of this, collectors sought out ‘Dutch drolls’ (as low-life scenes by Dutch and Flemish artists were called) with increasing enthusiasm, especially valuing Teniers’s vivid, intricate realism and lively touch. What was a footnote to royal collecting in 1750 became its main thrust by 1820. Acquired by Frederick, Prince of Wales, who also commissioned the frame Cat. 141

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