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Abraham Bosschaert Middelburg(?) 1612/13 - 1643 Utrecht
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Description
- Abraham Bosschaert
- a still life of tulips, roses, irises and daffodils in a glass vase with a caterpillar and three exotic shells on a stone ledge
- signed lower right: AB (in ligature) ofschaert
oil on panel
Provenance
With Matthiesen, Berlin, by 1928, (no. 1263; according to a label on the reverse; photo recorded at the R.K.D. only shows the upper half of the composition).
Literature
L.J. Bol, The Bosschaert Dynasty. Painters of flowers and fruit, Leigh-on-Sea 1960, p. 91, no. 5.
Catalogue Note
A comparable Flower stil life with shells, on copper, is recorded in a private collection (see Literature below, no. 4, reproduced).
Abraham Bosschaert was the youngest son of the celebrated still life painter Ambrosius Bosschaert (1573-1621) and the nephew of Balthasar van der Ast (1593/94-1657). He was a prominent painter in Utrecht during the third and fourth decades of the seventeenth century. His older brothers Johannes and Ambrosius Bosschaert the Younger were also still life painters and one or both were probably his teachers, since their father died when Abraham was eight. It is hard to distinguish his work from that of his brother Ambrosius, but fortunately the form of their signature differs clearly.