Amsterdam. Works: Northbrook Collection, London; Forest, Torrent, Amsterdam Museum; View near Haarlem, Sluice at Haarlem, Rotterdam Museum; Landscapes in Antwerp and Darmstadt Museums, Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Old Pinakothek, Munich (1661); View of Haarlem, Cassel Gallery; Canal of Haarlem, New York Museum.—Kugler (Crowe), ii. 480; Immerzeel, ii. 104; Burger, Musées, ii. 290.
KESSEL, JAN THOMAS VAN, born at
Antwerp, Sept. 10, 1677, died there in 1741.
Flemish school; genre painter, nephew and
pupil of Ferdinand van Kessel, having first
been apprenticed with Peter Ykens; adopted
the style of David Teniers; went early to
Paris, where he acquired reputation by his
village festivals, but on succeeding to his
uncle's property fell into dissipation, and
died in want. In 1704 he went to Antwerp
to buy his mastership. Works: Accessories
around "Soap-Bubbles" by Teniers,
Louvre, Paris; Guard Room, Sense of
Smelling, Lille Museum.—Van den Branden,
1103; Gaz. des B. Arts (1873), i. 316.
KESSEL, JEROOM VAN, born at Antwerp,
baptized Oct. 6, 1578, died after 1636.
Portrait, animal, and still-life painter, pupil
of Cornelis Floris; worked from about
1606 in different cities of Germany (Frankfort,
Augsburg, Strassburg), and was in
great favor with the Archduke Maximilian
of Austria, who employed him several years;
registered as master in Cologne in 1615,
and still worked there in 1620; master of
the guild at Antwerp in 1622. He supplied
birds and animals in the landscapes of Jan
(Velvet) Brueghel, and married his daughter.
Works: Male Portrait (1620), Merlo Collection,
Cologne; Fruits with Lobster, etc.
(1634 or 1654, attributed to Jan, the elder),
Dresden Museum; Family Group (1613),
Germanic Museum, Nuremberg; Male and
Female Portrait (1618), Schleissheim Gallery.—Allgem.
d. Biogr., xv. 653; Merlo,
Nachrichten, 237; Van den Branden, 1097.
KESSLER, AUGUST, born at Tilsit in
1826. Landscape painter, pupil of Düsseldorf
Academy; settled afterwards in Düsseldorf.
Works: Morning in the Woods
(1846); Evening in Rocky Valley (1847);
Evening Landscape in the Rain (1848);
Summer Landscape (1849); Approaching
Storm (1848); do. (1852); Morning in Bavarian
Alps (1860); View near Wallensee—Switzerland
(1861); Landscape in Bavarian
High Alps (1862); Approaching Storm
(1863); Wood Landscape (1865); On Brienz
Lake; View on the Upper Ruhr; Beech-Wood;
Ravine with Fir-Trees; View on
Gelmer Lake in Switzerland; View on Bernina
Glacier; Swiss Landscape (1874); Hintersee
in Thunder Storm (1879).—Müller,
297; Wolfg. Müller, Düsseldf. K, 330;
Zeitschr. f. b. K. (1869), (1873).
KESSLER, FRANZ, flourished in Cologne
about 1615-29. German school; portrait
painter, probably pupil of Geldorp; was
registered in the Cologne guild in 1615,
and travelled in 1620-24. Works: Portrait
of a Man with Embroidered Doublet (1621);
Female Portrait (1621), Cologne Museum;
Portrait of Ægidius Gelenius (1628); Male
Portrait, National Gallery, Pesth; Portrait
of a Man with Long Beard (1629), Merlo
Collection, Cologne.—Allgem. d. Biogr., xv.
655; Merlo, 237.
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KETEL, CORNELIS, born at Gouda,
March 15, 1548, died
at Amsterdam, buried
Aug. 8, 1616. Dutch
school; portrait painter,
pupil of Anthonie
van Montfoort in Delft,
thence went to Paris
and Fontainebleau.
Having returned to
Gouda he went to London
in 1573, painted
Queen Elizabeth (1578), various personages
of her court, and an allegory. After his return
to Amsterdam in 1581, he executed
several archery pieces which were distinguished
for their tasteful arrangement, likeness
of the heads, and fine and powerful
colouring. Works: Portraits of Burgo-
