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Abraham van Beijeren

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The artist may have been doing better financially in his later years as he was able to buy a house in Overschie for 1,000 guilders of which 600 was covered by a mortgage. His wife was reported as being sick in bed in 1679 when she made her will. The date of her death is unknown. Van Beijeren died in
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Van Beijeren's initial works were marine and fish still life paintings. These were not very well paid at the time and the relative poverty of van Beijeren may explain his frequent moves from one place to another. He resided in
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paintings. The move to painting pronkstillevens may have been motivated by economic necessity as they could be sold to a wealthier clientele. These still lifes are often quite elaborate displays and show the influence of
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He generally used a fairly broad technique and brown tonalities with some precision of detail. Van Beijeren was likely familiar with the other Dutch painters of pronkstillevens such as
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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 precise chronology of his works.
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who were specialists in monochrome banquet still lives. He often worked on a larger scale than his Dutch contemporaries with his tall canvasses reaching a height of one meter.
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After the death of his first wife he was left to raise three daughters. He married with Anna van den Queborn in 1647. His second wife was a painter and daughter of the painter
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of still lifes. Little recognized in his day and initially active as a marine painter, he is now considered one of the most important painters of
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are some of the public collections that hold paintings by Abraham van Beyeren. In private collections: Ger Eenens Collection the Netherlands.
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from 1657 where he joined the local Guild of Saint Luke. In 1663 he returned to The Hague where he remained until 1669 when he moved to
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in 1638-1639 where in 1639 he married Emmerentia Stercke. He was back in The Hague in 1640 where he became a master of the local
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While in the 1640s most of his paintings were seascapes, van Beijeren began to develop as a skilled still life painter of
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Bergström, Ingvar, "Dutch Still Life Painting in the Seventeenth Century", New York: T. Yoseloff, 1956.
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Peter C. Sutton, Dutch & Flemish Paintings: The Collection of Willem Baron Van Dedem
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Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press. Web. 11 Apr. 2014
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in 1675 and finally Overschie (Rotterdam) in 1677. This was his last home.
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Ostentatious still life with self-portrait of the artist in the silver jug
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Zamek KrĂłlewski w Warszawie: malarstwo do 1900 : katalog zbiorĂłw
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Walter A. Liedtke, Dutch Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Index


Mauritshuis
The Hague
Overschie
Rotterdam
Dutch
Baroque
painter
still lifes
still lifes
pronkstillevens
Tyman Arentsz. Cracht
Leiden
Guild of Saint Luke

Crispijn van den Queborn
Pieter de Putter

Delft
Amsterdam
Alkmaar
Gouda

fish
Jan van Goyen
floral
vanitas
Jan Davidsz. de Heem
Pieter Claesz
Willem Claeszoon Heda

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