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Willem Claesz Heda  (1594–1680)

• Was a Dutch Golden Age painter.
• Willem was an artist from the city of Haarlem devoted exclusively to the painting of still life.
• In 1616, at the age of twenty-one, he became a member of the Saint George civic guard.
• He married Cornelia Jacobsdr on June 9, 1619.
• Heda also took an active role in the Saint Luke’s Guild.
• His name first appears on the guild rolls of 1631, the year in which he assisted Salomon de Bray in its reorganization. 
• Willem was a contemporary and comrade of Dirck Hals.
• Heda and his fellow still life painter, Floris van Dyck, were "held in high esteem by the community as the best at painting their genre."
• His pupils include Maerten Boelema de Stomme, Gerret Willemsz Heda, Hendrik Heerschop, and Arnold van Beresteijn.
• The displayed painting is a crop from: Still Life with a Gilt Cup 1635.
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