abraham teniers was a flemish painter and engraver who specialized in genre paintings of villages, inns and monkey scenes. he was a member of artist family teniers which came to prominence in the 17th century. he was also active as a publisher. abraham teniers was born in antwerp where he was baptized on 1 march 1629. he was the son of the prominent genre painter david teniers the elder and dymphna cornelisse de wilde (also called 'dymphna hendrikx'). three of his brothers were also painters: david the younger (1610–90) who became the most successful of the teniers painting dynasty, juliaan i…