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In Antwerp. 513 At the Hermitage, S. Petersburg, there is a Kitchen, full of game, fish, vegetables and fruit, in which Teniers has painted his father as an old blind fisherman, and him- self as a falconer ; and a beautiful and curious View of the Chateau of de Drij Toren ; and lastly, the great picture , four feet high by seven or eight wide, which was painted Fig 166. — The Knife-grinder. By Teniers. in 1643 for the Guild of Archers, and which is called the Archers of Antwerp. Teniers had numerous pupils, who, though they suc- ceeded to some extent in imitating his work, are far inferior to him in real life. EHA L L