Adriaen van der Spelt
Illustration — Still life with flowers Adriaen van der Spelt (c. 1630 in Leiden – 1673 in Gouda), was a Dutch Golden Age flower painter.
Also recorded as Adriaen Van Der Spelt · Adrian van der Spelt · Vanderspelt · Spelt
Adriaen van der Spelt
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- Born
- 1630 · Leiden.
- Died
- 1673 · Gouda.
- Nationality
- Dutch Republic
- Occupation
- botanical illustrator · painter
- Fields
- floral
- Languages
- Dutch
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Illustration — Still life with flowers Adriaen van der Spelt (c. 1630 in Leiden – 1673 in Gouda), was a Dutch Golden Age flower painter.
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The recorded working language is Dutch. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are floral. Places of work recorded in the authority are Gouda, Leiden and Berlin. Positions recorded include court painter. Work by Adriaen van der Spelt is recorded in the collections of Art Institute of Chicago and Museum Gouda.
According to Houbraken, whose comments were based on the Gouda stories by Ignatius Walvis, he was an excellent flower painter born in Leiden, but his parentage was from Gouda. He spent many years at the court of Brandenburg working for Frederick William I, Elector of Brandenburg, but moved to Gouda to marry a third time with a nasty wife from Groningen who drove him to his grave. According to the RKD he was a flower painter who spent the years 1664-1670 at the court of Brandenburg.
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1630
Adriaen van der Spelt born at Leiden.
1673
Adriaen van der Spelt died at Gouda.
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Gouda.
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- 1.Spelt (Adriaan van der). 17/2. 896. 534.
- 2.Adriaen van der Spelt → Father: Job Adriaensz van der Spelt. uva.nl.
- 3.Spelt, Adriaen van der. 1910.
- 4.J. E. J. Geselschap. Werd Adriaan van der Spelt vermoord?. 1970-01-01. 0030-672X.
- 5.Ignatius Walvis. Beschryving der stad Gouda. 1713.
- 6.Geord Wolfgang Knorr. Adrian van der Spelt. 1759.
- 7.Früchtestillleben mit Schmetterlingen und Schnecken in einer Nische, 1662. 2012-08.
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