WEENIX, Jan Baptist

Dutch painter, a pupil of Bloemaert who was in Italy 1642-46 and returned, calling himself "Giovanni Battista", to Holland to paint Italianate landscapes with ruins of ancient buildings and figures in modern dress, very reminiscent of the work of Berchem, who is said to have been his cousin. Later in life he changed his style entirely and painted still-life and some portraits, his very detailed style being continued by his son Jan. There are typical works in Amsterdam, Antwerp, Berlin, Brighton, Cleveland Ohio, Dresden, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Hartford Conn., London (National GalleryGLOSSARYan upper story, similar to a tribune, running along the side of a building and open on one side to the interior; in a church (basilica) above the side aisles, over the ambulatory (central-plan building) and also over the west end. The gallery was used to keep certain groups of worshippers apart (women, noblemen)., Wallace Collection and Kenwood), New York (Metropolitan Museum), Paris (Louvre), Rotterdam, Utrecht and Vienna.