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 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.

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