Pieter van der Willigen
Illustration — Still Life with skull, book, pipe, carafe, and hourglass. Pieter van der Willigen (17 December 1634 – 8 June 1694) was a Flemish Baroque painter.
Also recorded as Pieter Van Der Willigen
Pieter van der Willigen
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- Born
- 1634 · Bergen op Zoom.
- Died
- 1694 · Antwerp.
- Nationality
- Dutch Republic
- Occupation
- painter
- Fields
- still life
- Languages
- Dutch
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Illustration — Still Life with skull, book, pipe, carafe, and hourglass. Pieter van der Willigen (17 December 1634 – 8 June 1694) was a Flemish Baroque painter.
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The recorded working language is Dutch. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are still life. Places of work recorded in the authority are Antwerp. Work by Pieter van der Willigen is recorded in the collections of Statens Museum for Kunst, Bavarian State Painting Collections and Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts.
According to Cornelis de Bie, he was born in Bergen op Zoom and was a good still-life painter. According to the RKD, he became a pupil of Thomas Willeboirts Bosschaert in 1652, was a member of the Guild of St. Luke from 1655 to 1669, and became poorter in Antwerp in 1661. He is known as a still-life painter who influenced David Bailly. In 1662 his brother Jan van der Willigen was his pupil. He died in Antwerp. Many paintings formerly attributed to him have been re-attributed to Hendrick Andriessen, especially those with a wreath of straw on top of a skull. Today very few works remain that can be attributed to him, though De Bie wrote a page-long poem about his "still" paintings, and Houbraken also included a poem about his still-life paintings from another source.
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