Painting ID:: 92515
Still Life with Flowers in a Wan-Li vase. 1619(1619)
Medium oil on copper
Dimensions Height: 31 cm (12.2 in). Width: 22.5 cm (8.9 in).
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Ambrosius Bosschaert (Antwerp, January 18, 1573?CThe Hague, 1621) was a still life painter of the Dutch Golden Age.He started his career in Antwerp, but spend most of it in Middelburg (1593?C1613), where he became dean of the painters' guild. He later worked in Amsterdam (1614), Bergen op Zoom (1615?C1616), Utrecht (1616?C1619), and Breda (1619). He specialised in painting still lifes with flowers. In 1587, Ambrosius Bosschaert moved from Antwerp to Middelburg with his family because of the threat of religious persecution. At the age of twenty-one, he joined the cityes Guild of Saint Luke. Not long after, Bosschaert had established himself as a leading figure in the fashionable floral painting genre.
Still Life with Flowers in a Wan-Li vase. 1619(1619)
Medium oil on copper
Dimensions Height: 31 cm (12.2 in). Width: 22.5 cm (8.9 in).
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