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 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.

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.

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