KKSSKI, jilav writer. Works: SI. Luke, Adoration of thd Lamb, Passover in Figypt, Antwerp Museum. Cat. du Musee d'Anvers (1H7I), '2'25 ; Kramiii, iii. H. r >(t ; (looses (Itebcr), i:t'. ; Van dell Mraiidcn, I Kill. KF.SSKU FKKDINAND VAN, born at Antwerp, April 7, KilH, In. I at llrcda in Ili'.Xi. l'i. mi Ii si-hool ; liiiidseape, animal, mill still life painter, son and pupil of Jan Vllll Kessel, did elder, whose slvld he fol- lowed, lie also undertook to paint large historical subjects, as the I till tie of Choc /mi. Ki7:t, for the parish church at /olkiew, (iahcii!, l>v order of King John Sol lies); i, who look this arlisl into great favour . Mini lor whose Cabinet he painted the I'.iiir I'.K iiients mid the I our Continents, Mild after both perished in the flames, repeated them on a. grander scale. lieft Antwerp before KiHK, and settled ill I'.n.li win n In painted for King 'i Ilium III. Works : I'.irds (minia lure). Duke of Devonshire, Clialsworth; (I roil p of Animals, (ilienf Miiseuin ; ('.-its' I'. ,i rber shop, Mon Tliuret, Antwerp ; Landscape, Hague Mu senm ; Itacclianale in a fjandseajie, Bruns- wick Museum ; (iitrland with Insects, etc. (Ki. r >:t); Rabbits by Vegetables, etc., Augs- burg (lallery ; Fruilscller in his Booth, Co- penhagen (lallery ; Fruits and Lobsters, etc. (1(151, by JeroomV), Dresden Museum ; Ma- donna in a Niche, (lermanic Museum, Nu- remberg ; America (l(!(i(!), lOurope (!(!(!(), Africa, Asia, Schleissheim (lallery; Cats' IJarber-Hhop, Monkeys playing at Draughts, Schwerin ( lallery ; Minis and small Animals, Weapons, Ketlle-druni, etc., Stockholm Mu- seum ; Landscapes ('2), Stuttgart Museum ; I Soar Hunt, Hear and Snake, Landscape with P.irds, do. wilh Fo and Stork, Vienna Mu- seum ; (larland around Infant Jesus and St. John (ligures by Vllll Tlllllilcn), Madrid Mu- seum ; Fish, Fish and Fruils, do. wilh Three Infants. Studio of a Naturalist (I(!(!0), Fruits and Vegetables in I'.askets, I'lli/.i, Florenee ; lrnits and Floers ('2), Naples Miisdiim. Ch. Mlimc, J.I/. ' ing, Vii'imn Museum. iiigerdi, lielveilere (!id., ii. '2'20 ; Kramm, iii. S5I ; Van den Itranden, I 101. KKSSKL. JAN '.VN, the elder, born in Antwerp, April 5. |(','2i;, ,|,,,| I h c' re. April 17. I C 7 !. I 1 ' I i' m i s Ii school ; (lower, fruit, .in.l am mid pa ml. i son of Jeroom v a n K essd 1, pupil of Simon de VOH and of Jan Mrueghel, the younger; muster of the guild in Kill. Works: (lar- land around Holy Family, Louvre ; Fruit- piece (H. r i:i), Mordeanx Museum; Concert of Minis, Antwerp Museum; do., and Fable of Fox and Stork (ICIil), Marou de Pret- m a n d e ; ( 'at. dn Mus d'Anvers ( 1S74), 47(! ; Fngerlh, Mdlveddi-d (lalerie, ii. '2'Jl ; Immer/eel, ii. lo:t ; Kramm, iii. S5'J ; Itiegel, Meitriigc, ii. 1-4 ; b'ooses (Itebcr), 42(i ; Van den Itran- den, (O'.IS. KFSSKL. JAN VAN, the younger, born in Antwerp. Nov. 'Jit, |(!f>4, died in Madrid in 1 70S Flemish school ; history and por- trait painter, son and pupil of Jail the elder ; went to Madrid in KiSO; made coin I painter to Charles II., IC.Sd. Works: Portrait of Philip l'., Madrid Museum ; History of Psyche. I jandscapes, Alea/ar, Madrid ; Two Dwarfs with Dog;, liac/ynski (lallery, Mer- lin.- -Allgem. d. Miogr., xv. (i. r >4 ; Kramm. iii. M'2 ; Van den Itranden, 1104. KI'.SSFL, JAN VAN. born in Amsterdam in Kill or Kil-2, died there, buried Dec. '24, Ki'.IO. Dutch school ; landscape painter, who in feeling and clearness of colouring approaches Jacob Knisdael, of whom some call him a pupil. Particularly successful in winter landscapes ; painted also views of
