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Aelst, Willem van
Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1627-ca.1683 Studied under Otto Marseus van Schrieck. Students included Rachel Ruysch. Specializes in Still Life. was a Dutch artist who specialized in still-life painting with flowers or game. Van Aelst was born to a family of prominent city magistrates. He learned to paint from his uncle, the still-life painter Evert van Aelst. On 9 November 1643 he enrolled as a master of the Guild of Saint Luke at Delft. Between 1645 and 1649 he lived in France. In 1649 Van Aelst travelled to Florence, where he served as court painter to Ferdinand II de Medici, grand duke of Tuscany. At this time, the grand duke also employed two fellow Dutchmen Matthias Withoos and Otto Marseus van Schrieck, the latter also a still-life painter who probably influenced Van Aelst's style. In 1656 he returned to the Netherlands to settle permanently in Amsterdam. He became one of the most prominent still-life painters of his generation,
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Painting ID:: 76308
Still Life of Fruit
Date ca. 1660(1660)
Medium Oil on canvas
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Painting ID:: 76309
Fruit Still-Life
Date 1677(1677)
Medium Oil on canvas
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Painting ID:: 77015
with Fruit
Date 1664(1664)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions Width: 52 cm (20.5 in). Height: 67 cm (26.4 in).
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Painting ID:: 77224
Still Life with Hunting Equipment and Dead Birds
Date 1668(1668)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions Width: 54 cm (21.3 in). Height: 68 cm (26.8 in).
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Painting ID:: 77354
Still Life
Date ca. 1645(1645)
Medium Oil on panel
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Aelst, Willem van
Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1627-ca.1683 Studied under Otto Marseus van Schrieck. Students included Rachel Ruysch. Specializes in Still Life. was a Dutch artist who specialized in still-life painting with flowers or game. Van Aelst was born to a family of prominent city magistrates. He learned to paint from his uncle, the still-life painter Evert van Aelst. On 9 November 1643 he enrolled as a master of the Guild of Saint Luke at Delft. Between 1645 and 1649 he lived in France. In 1649 Van Aelst travelled to Florence, where he served as court painter to Ferdinand II de Medici, grand duke of Tuscany. At this time, the grand duke also employed two fellow Dutchmen Matthias Withoos and Otto Marseus van Schrieck, the latter also a still-life painter who probably influenced Van Aelst's style. In 1656 he returned to the Netherlands to settle permanently in Amsterdam. He became one of the most prominent still-life painters of his generation,
. Related Artists to Aelst, Willem van: | John Smart | POST, Pieter Jansz | Frederic james Shields,ARWS | Abraham Jansz Van Diepenbeeck | johan josef malmberg |
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