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Jan Davidsz. de Heem
      stilllife masters, Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1606-C.1683
Jan Davidsz. de Heem Still-Life with Flowers and Fruit USA oil painting artist


Still-Life with Flowers and Fruit
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Painting ID::  10200
Visit European Gallery 		  1650Oil on canvas Art Gallery/Museum Cheltenham

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Francisco Barrera
      Spanish, 1595-1657,Spanish painter. Although he is sometimes thought to have been a Sevillian painter, his career is documented in Madrid. Barrera enjoyed considerable prestige and authority within the artistic community of the Spanish capital and in 1634 and 1639 represented his profession in significant legal battles concerning the status and rights of painters. However, Barrera's known paintings, all of which are still-lifes, are those of a derivative artist of modest abilities. In Still-life with Basket of Grapes, signed and dated 1642 (Florence, Uffizi), his arrangement of objects in a window-frame and on a stone ledge derives from works by Juan van der Hamen y Le?n but without that artist's refined compositional sense or mastery of pictorial space. The rather weak modelling of objects in this painting is consistent with Barrera's other still-lifes, which are further characterized by their light tonality, bland colouring and monotonous brushwork. Comparable stylistic features are found in the more accomplished still-lifes of Antonio Ponce, with whom Barrera is documented in the 1630s. Barrera's best works are those depicting the Four Seasons, signed and dated 1638 (Seville, priv. col., see 1982 exh. cat., pp. 78-85). These are still-lifes of abundant seasonal foodstuffs and, in landscape settings, large symbolic and genre figures drawn from traditional iconography.
Francisco Barrera Still-Life with Flowers and Fruit USA oil painting artist


Still-Life with Flowers and Fruit
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Painting ID::  52628
Visit European Gallery 		  1643 Oil on canvas, 63,5 x 94,5 cm

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