A descriptive catalogue of the pictures in the Fitzwilliam museum, comp largely from materials supplied by Sidney Colvin .. . d and settled at Leyden in 1628; remainedthere till 1632, after which he went to Antwerp. Here he stayed till 1667, when he returnedto Utrecht, but came to Antwerp again in 1672 and died there between 14 Oct. 1683 and26 Ap. 1684. He was the greatest of all flower painters. In spite of his long stay inAntwerp he remained in essence a Dutch painter, though not unaffected by the FlemishSchool. His master at Utrecht was his father David de Heem, a painter otherwiseunknown,
A descriptive catalogue of the pictures in the Fitzwilliam museum, comp largely from materials supplied by Sidney Colvin .. . d and settled at Leyden in 1628; remainedthere till 1632, after which he went to Antwerp. Here he stayed till 1667, when he returnedto Utrecht, but came to Antwerp again in 1672 and died there between 14 Oct. 1683 and26 Ap. 1684. He was the greatest of all flower painters. In spite of his long stay inAntwerp he remained in essence a Dutch painter, though not unaffected by the FlemishSchool. His master at Utrecht was his father David de Heem, a painter otherwiseunknown, and his early works are especially Dutch in character, approaching, like many ofthose of the Haarlem School, to brown monochrome. His later pictures are richer in colour,and astonishingly fresh and lifelike, boldly but delicately executed. He is fond of introducinginsects, butterflies, and small animals, among his fruit and flowers. 88 CATALOGUE OF PICTURES [Heem. I. 313. Flowers. In a greenish vase on a table a bunch of tulips,poppies, roses, white lilies, etc.; a bee on one of the flowers. Grounddark. Signed at bottom. Canvas, 2 1 by 1 8. Mesman. HEEMSKERCK. Egbert VAN HEEMSKERCK. Dutch School,1645 ?—1704. Painter of still-life and genre; born at Haarlem. The date of his birth is usually given as1645, but if he is the painter who in 1663 was living at the Hague and then 28 years old,he must have been born in 1634*. He was a pupil of P. de Grebber at Haarlem andpainted chiefly scenes of peasant life, in which he imitated the style of Tenters andBrouwer. Died in London, 1704. I. 430. Monks singing. Seated round a bare table in foreground,three figures; to r. a monk, to 1. a youth in black with brown cap onhis head, on the far side a monk with his r. hand raised. Behindthem stand two more monks, one on each side, and beyond them inthe centre a third, scarcely visible. All the monks are bare headedand wear brown habits ; two hold sheets of music and a book liesopen on the table
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