The Smokers

David Teniers the Younger (1610–1690)

“The Smokers” by David Teniers the Younger in the East Drawing Room of The Wallace Collection, Marylebone, London, England

From The Wallace Collection website:

The Smokers is a tavern scene influenced by Adriaen Brouwer, showing the vice of smoking, as three peasants roll tobacco, fill a pipe and inhale. The discarded shoe indicates the men’s unwillingness to leave such a congenial interior and the mussel shells warn of the poverty to which such behaviour will lead.

Object description
Type: Easel painting
Location: The Wallace Collection, London
Material: Oil on copper
Artist: David Teniers the Younger (1610–1690)
Date: 1644

Image details
Date: 8 December 2025
Camera body: iPhone Xs
Lens: Telephoto Camera 52mm ƒ/2.4
Focal Length: 52mm
Aperture: ƒ/2.4
Shutter Speed: 1/33s
ISO: 800
Licensing: Image of a Wallace Collection asset. This image cannot be licensed.