- Abraham van Beijeren
Abraham Hendriksz van Beijeren (ca. 1620
The Hague - March 1690Rotterdam ) was a DutchBaroque era painter. He was little regarded in his day but is now considered one of the greatest of still-life painters. Van Beijeren (alternatively spelled "Beyeren") lived in a succession of Dutch towns. Born inThe Hague , the artist also lived inDelft ,Amsterdam ,Alkmaar andGouda . In 1678 he settled inRotterdam , where he died in 1690.ignature
Unfortunately Van Beijeren signed his canvases with the monogram AVB and invariably failed to include a date. As a result it has been difficult to compile a chronology of his works.
Artistic style
While in the 1640s most of his paintings were seascapes, Van Beijeren began to develop as a skilled still life painter of
fish . In the 1650s and 1660s he focused on still lifes with fine silverware, Chinese porcelain, glass and selections of fruit. He also painted a number offloral still life paintings.The
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna , theAshmolean Museum (University of Oxford),Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts (Stanford University, California), theCleveland Museum of Art , theDetroit Institute of Arts , theHonolulu Academy of Arts , theLos Angeles County Museum of Art , theLouvre , theMetropolitan Museum of Art , theMinneapolis Institute of Arts , theNational Maritime Museum (Greenwich, UK), thePhiladelphia Museum of Art , theRijksmuseum Amsterdam ,Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium and theSeattle Art Museum are among the public collections holding paintings by Abraham van Beijeren.References
* Bergström, Ingvar, "Dutch Still Life Painting in the Seventeenth Century", New York: T. Yoseloff, 1956.
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