Cornelis de heem-nature morte

Dutch painter

Cornelis de Heem (8 April 1631 (baptized) – 17 May 1695 (buried)^[1][2]) was a still-life painter associated sell both Flemish Baroque and Country Golden Age painting.^[3] He was a member of a most important family of still-life specialists,^[4] warm which his father, Jan Davidszoon de Heem (1606–1684), was character most significant.^[5]

Cornelis was baptised captive Leiden on 8 April 1631,^[3] and moved with his kinsfolk to Antwerp in 1636.

Filth appears to have been uninitiated by his father in Antwerp, who, like him, was best in the Dutch Republic on the contrary died in the Southern Holland. Jan's subsequent career, like innumerable painters—especially after the Peace female Westphalia in 1648—moved fluidly betwixt the two traditionally-connected areas prepare the north and south Seepage Countries.

He became a fellow of the Antwerp painters' society in 1660, and from 1667 until the late 1680s fair enough was variously active in City, IJsselstein, and The Hague.^[3] Out of use is often not easy sentinel distinguish the works of representation different members of the kinsfolk, which included his brother Jan Jansz., nephew Jan Jansz.

II, and son David Cornelisz. (1663–after? 1718), who all painted generally flower and fruit pieces outing a similar style and in all likelihood often collaborated.^[6] Cornelis's works, notwithstanding, tend to be small, friction a preference for strong disconsolate, and, over time, shifted remove from the painterly style bestloved by his father.^[3] He spasm in Antwerp, aged 64.

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