play-writer. Works: St. Luke, Adoration of the Lamb, Passover in Egypt, Antwerp Museum.—Cat. du Musée d'Anvers (1874), 225; Kramm, iii. 850; Rooses (Reber), 439; Van den Branden, 1169.
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KESSEL, FERDINAND VAN, born at
Antwerp, April 7, 1648, died at Breda in
1696. Flemish school; landscape, animal,
and still-life painter, son and pupil of Jan
van Kessel, the elder, whose style he followed.
He also undertook to paint large
historical subjects, as the Battle of Choczim,
1673, for the parish church at Zolkiew,
Galicia, by order of King John Sobieski,
who took this artist into great favour and
for whose Cabinet he painted the Four Elements
and the Four Continents, and after
both perished in the flames, repeated them
on a grander scale. Left Antwerp before
1688, and settled at Breda, where he painted
for King William III. Works: Birds (miniature),
Duke of Devonshire, Chatsworth;
Group of Animals, Ghent Museum; Cats'
Barbershop,
Monkeys
Smoking,
Vienna
Museum.—Engerth,
Belvedere Gal., ii. 220; Kramm,
iii. 851; Van den Branden, 1101.
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KESSEL, JAN VAN, the elder, born in
Antwerp, April
5, 1626, died
there, April
17, 1679.
Flemish
school; flower,
fruit, and animal
painter,
son of Jeroom
van Kessel,
pupil of Simon
de Vos and of Jan Brueghel, the younger;
master of the guild in 1644. Works: Garland
around Holy Family, Louvre; Fruitpiece
(1653), Bordeaux Museum; Concert
of Birds, Antwerp Museum; do., and Fable
of Fox and Stork (1661), Baron de Pret-Thuret,
Antwerp; Landscape, Hague Museum;
Bacchanale in a Landscape, Brunswick
Museum; Garland with Insects, etc.
(1653); Rabbits by Vegetables, etc., Augsburg
Gallery; Fruitseller in his Booth, Copenhagen
Gallery; Fruits and Lobsters, etc.
(1654, by Jeroom ?), Dresden Museum; Madonna
in a Niche, Germanic Museum, Nuremberg;
America (1666), Europe (1664),
Africa, Asia, Schleissheim Gallery; Cats'
Barber-Shop, Monkeys playing at Draughts,
Schwerin Gallery; Birds and small Animals,
Weapons, Kettle-drum, etc., Stockholm Museum;
Landscapes (2), Stuttgart Museum;
Boar-Hunt, Bear and Snake, Landscape with
Birds, do. with Fox and Stork, Vienna Museum;
Garland around Infant Jesus and St.
John (figures by Van Thulden), Madrid Museum;
Fish, Fish and Fruits, do. with Three
Infants, Studio of a Naturalist (1660), Fruits
and Vegetables in Baskets, Uffizi, Florence;
Fruits and Flowers (2), Naples Museum.—Ch.
Blanc,
École flamande;
Cat. du Mus. d'Anvers (1874), 476; Engerth,
Belvedere Galerie, ii. 221; Immerzeel, ii.
103; Kramm, iii. 852; Riegel, Beiträge, ii.
124; Rooses (Reber), 426; Van den Branden,
1098.
KESSEL, JAN VAN, the younger, born
in Antwerp, Nov. 23, 1654, died in Madrid
in 1708. Flemish school; history and portrait
painter, son and pupil of Jan the elder;
went to Madrid in 1680; made court-painter
to Charles II., 1686. Works: Portrait of
Philip IV., Madrid Museum; History of
Psyche, Landscapes, Alcazar, Madrid; Two
Dwarfs with Dog, Raczynski Gallery, Berlin.—Allgem.
d. Biogr., xv. 654; Kramm,
iii. 852; Van den Branden, 1104.
KESSEL, JAN VAN, born in Amsterdam
in 1641 or 1642, died there, buried Dec. 24,
1690. Dutch school; landscape painter,
who in feeling and clearness of colouring
approaches Jacob Ruisdael, of whom some
call him a pupil. Particularly successful in
winter landscapes; painted also views of
