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Willem van Aelst (1627 - 1683)

• Was a Dutch Golden Age painter.
• He specialized in still-life painting with flowers or game.
• Van Aelst was born in Delft to a family of prominent city magistrates.
• He learned to paint from his uncle, the still-life painter Evert van Aelst.
• On 9 November 1643 he enrolled as a master of the Guild of Saint Luke at Delft.
• He became one of the most prominent still-life painters of his generation, which allowed him to live on the Prinsengracht.
• He must have died in 1683 at Amsterdam.
• Van Aelst taught Rachel Ruysch, Isaac Denies, Maria van Oosterwijck, and Ernst Stuven.
• The displayed painting is a crop from: Willem van Aelst, Still Life with Fruit, Lobster and Silver Vessels, 1660-70.
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