The painting depicts a pensive young man on a tawny background and is signed by Frans David Oerder, a Dutch artist who emigrated ... today for landscape and still-life works.
After flourishing under Dutch-born William III and his English wife Queen Mary, when the Glorious Revolution of 1688 set in motion a vogue for all things from Holland, still life spent 300 years ...
"The peanut butter sandwich placed next to, say, some of the Dutch still lifes ... demonstrates this radical range." He favours a traditional style of still life paintings — a kind of work that ...
Finding inspiration in the objects he selects, Almanza Pereda eschews narrative and prefers to focus on materiality. Though his work is influenced by Dutch still-life painting, it can touch on the ...
It was traditionally believed that he was solely a still life painter. It is now confirmed that he also painted merry company paintings and tronies. [2] Elaut also painted tronies, i.e. works that ...