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Jan Weenix  (c.1640 – 1719)

• Was a Dutch painter.
• He was trained by his father, Jan Baptist Weenix, together with his cousin Melchior d'Hondecoeter.
• Like his father, he devoted himself to a variety of subjects, but his fame is chiefly due to his paintings of dead game and of hunting scenes.
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was impressed by the treatment of animals in Weenix pictures which he saw in Munich.
• He devoted a poem to the master's technique in which he stated that Weenix equaled and even surpassed nature in his treatment of animal textures as hair, feathers and claws.
• The displayed painting is a crop from: Jan Weenix, Gamepiece with a Dead Heron - "Falconer`s Bag", 1685.
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