Anthonie van Teijn was the son of Levie van Tijn and Daatje Wolf. He went into business as a fine-art painter in The Hague. In 1892 he moved to Paris, where a friend of his, the sculptor August Alexander, had gone earlier. He returned to the Netherlands in 1939 and stayed in Amersfoort with a cousin. Anthonie van Teijn was buried in Amersfoort’s Rusthof cemetery in 1943.
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More information about Anthonie van Teijn can be found in: J.G. de Ridder, Zonen van het Oude Volk in het Westland (The Hague 1979) and I. B. van Creveld, Kunst in Den Haag : drie eeuwen joodse beeldende kunstenaars (Den Haag 2000)
See also a biography on Anthonie van Teijn.