Jan Josef Horemans the Elder

[1] He was the teacher of his younger brother Peter Jacob and his son Jan Josef.

[1] He produced large number of small anecdotal pictures that were executed in the tradition of 17th-century Flemish genre painters.

[1] Jan Josef Horemans was the leading chronicler of everyday life in Antwerp in the first half of the 18th century.

He used various tricks of composition to present a vivid account of episodes in private houses, inns and courtyards.

[3] His scenes from contemporary everyday life combine observation but are executed with a certain stiffness.