Luttichuys, Simon

Simon Luttichuys (1610–1661)

• Was a Dutch Golden Age still life painter.
• Luttichuys was born in London.
• According to RKD, he was probably the same person as Simon Littlehouse who painted a portrait of the bishop Thomas Morton of St. John's College, Cambridge in 1637/1638.
• His name in Dutch sounds like Littlehouse.
• He was the brother of the painter Isaack Luttichuys and had moved to Amsterdam by 1649.
• He married an Englishwoman from Norfolk in Amsterdam in 1655, Anna van Peene uit ' Naerfick in Engelant'.
• Luttichuys influenced the painter Willem Kalf.
• He died in Amsterdam.
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Simon Luttichuys, Still life with overturned tin jug and Romans,
1649

Original, Staatliche Museum in Berlin, Gemäldegalerie. Visited in 2019

Simon Luttichuys, Still life with a Wine Glass and a Bread Roll

Original, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany. Visited in 2024.

Simon Luttichuys, Still life with a Wine Glass and a Bread Roll

Simon Luttichuys, Vanitas still life with skull, books, prints and paintings by Rembrandt and Jan Lievens, with a reflection of the painter at work, between 1635 and 1640

Original, National Museum, Gdańsk, Poland. Visited in 2024.