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Willem van Aelst (1627 - 1683)

• Was a Dutch Golden Age painter.
• He specialized in still-life painting with flowers or game.
• Van Aelst was born in Delft to a family of prominent city magistrates.
• He learned to paint from his uncle, the still-life painter Evert van Aelst.
• On 9 November 1643 he enrolled as a master of the Guild of Saint Luke at Delft.
• He became one of the most prominent still-life painters of his generation, which allowed him to live on the Prinsengracht.
• He must have died in 1683 at Amsterdam.
• Van Aelst taught Rachel Ruysch, Isaac Denies, Maria van Oosterwijck, and Ernst Stuven.
• The displayed painting is a crop from: Willem van Aelst, Still Life with Fruit, Lobster and Silver Vessels, 1660-70.
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Attributed to Willem van Aelst, Still Life with Fruit, Lobster and Silver Vessels, 1660-70

Original, Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Visited in 2018.

Attributed to Willem van Aelst, Still Life with Fruit, Lobster and Silver Vessels, 1660-70

Willem van Aelst, An Oyster Breakfest, 1679

Original, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden. Visited in 2018.

Willem van Aelst, An Oyster Breakfest, 1679

Willem van Aelst, Still Life with Dead Game, 1661

Original, The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. Visited in 2017-2018.

Willem van Aelst, Still Life with Dead Game, 1661

Willem van Aelst, A Still Life of Game and a Velvet Game Bag on a Marble Ledge, c. 1665

Original, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Visited in 2018.

Willem van Aelst, A Still Life of Game and a Velvet Game Bag on a Marble Ledge, c. 1665

Willem van Aelst, Grapes, peaches and large glass, 1670

Original, Louvre Museum, Paris. Visited in 2021.

Willem van Aelst, Grapes, peaches and large glass, 1670

Willem van Aelst, Game and Hunting Attire, 1667

Original, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels. Visited in 2022.

Willem van Aelst, Flowers in a Silver Vase, 1663

Original, Legion of Honor, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Visited in 2022.

Willem van Aelst, Flowers in a Silver Vase, 1663

Willem van Aelst, Fruit and a Glass of Wine, 1659

Original, Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp, Belgium. Visited in 2023.

Willem van Aelst, Fruit and a Glass of Wine, 1659

Willem van Aelst, Fruit and a Glass of Wine, 1659