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Ad Code: 4
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from Auction House Records.
A STILL LIFE WITH A ROEMER, A SILVER TAZZA, A FLUTED WINE-GLASS, A MUSTARD JAR, A HAM AND A PARTLY PEELED LEMON ON PEWTER DISHES AND A BREAD ROLL, ALL ARRANGED ON A TABLE-TOP DRAPED IN WHITE
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Willem Heda was born c. 1593 in Haarlem, the Netherlands. After painting a few portraits and religious works, he began to specialize in still-life painting. Together with Pieter Claesz, he was the great painter of laden tables or the remains of a meal.
His works are to be found in nearly all the museums of Europe. Heda occasionally painted rare materials and aristocratic, sumptuous compositions but he preferred the table settings of bourgeois homes. He is ri (showing 500 of 901 characters). |
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