_David Teniers, the elder_ (Flemish: 1582-1649).
This artist is less memorable for his own works, which are
mediocre, than as the founder of a family of painters (see
Wauters: _The Flemish School_, p. 299), and the father of the
celebrated David Teniers (the younger). He was a member of
the Antwerp Guild of Painters, but spent ten years at Rome,
where he came under the influence of Adam Elsheimer. The elder
Teniers was the master of his son, who carried on his style,
so that it is not always easy to distinguish their several
pictures. In their own time father and son were equally
appreciated. There is a large number of works by the elder
Teniers in the Dulwich Gallery. On the whole they are browner
in tone than those of the younger painter.