Davidis Teniers after Guido Reni - Susanna and the Elders DP841467

Theodor van Kessel, Theodoor van Kessel or Theodorus van KesselTheodoor van Kessel
at Ecartico (1620 – 1696) was an engraver active in the Dutch Republic, Rome and

Antwerp Antwerp (; nl, Antwerpen ; french: Anvers ; es, Amberes) is the largest city in Belgium by area at and the capital of Antwerp Province in the Flemish Region. With a population of 520,504,

. He was one of the engravers who collaborated on the ''

Theatrum Pictorium ''Theatrum Pictorium'', or ''Theatre of Painting'', is a short-hand name of a book published in the 1660s by David Teniers the Younger for his employer, the Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria. It was a catalog of 243 Italian paintings in the Ar ...

'' of

David Teniers the Younger David Teniers the Younger or David Teniers II (bapt. 15 December 1610 – 25 April 1690) was a Flemish Baroque painter, printmaker, draughtsman, miniaturist painter, staffage painter, copyist and art curator. He was an extremely versatile arti ...

.Theodor van Kessel
in the Netherlands Institute for Art History

Life

Little is known of his early life. He may have worked in Utrecht in the Dutch Republic around 1638, although this may have been an artist with the same name. He is recorded as working in Rome where he inscribed his name in the catacombs of Domitilla, in the crypt of David. His presence in Antwerp is firmly established in 1652 where he was active until around 1660.

Work

He is known for several series of prints after other artists; among them are 10 plates of animals he made in 1654 for Jan van den Hecke entitled ''Alcune Animali''. Van den Hecke was at the time court painter and curator for the governor of the Habsburg Netherlands, the

Archduke Leopold Wilhelm Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria (5 January 1614 – 20 November 1662), younger brother of Emperor Ferdinand III, was an Austrian soldier, administrator and patron of the arts. He held a number of military commands, with limited success, and ...

. After van den Hecke died, Teniers succeeded him in the position of court painter and curator. This is probably how van Kessel came to work for him.

Selected works

File:Adam van Vianen.jpg, ''Portrait of Adam van Vianen'', from the book with 48 plates by Van Kessel for Vianen's son Christiaen van Vianen''Modelli Artificiosi di Vasi diversi d'argento et altre Opere capriciozi '', by Christiaen van Vianen, Utrecht, 1646-1652 File:Jan van den Hecke - Landscape with Four Dogs (from Alcune Animali).jpg, ''Landscape with Four Dogs'', from ''Alcune Animali''

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kessel, Theodor Van 1620 births 1696 deaths Flemish engravers