Adriaen Coorte, c. (1659/64 - 1707)

• Was a Dutch Golden Age painter of still lifes.
• Coorte signed works between 1683 and 1707.
• He became a pupil of Melchior d'Hondecoeter around 1680 in Amsterdam.
• He painted small and unpretentious still lifes, and was "one of the last practitioners of this intimate category".
• Neither his birth nor death date is certain, and archival evidence only exists in Middelburg for his membership in the Guild of St. Luke.
• There from 1695 onwards, when he was fined for selling a painting without being a member of the guild.
• His works appear frequently in contemporary Middelburg taxation inventories.
• The displayed painting is a crop from Adriaen Coorte, Shells on a Stone Plinth, 1698.
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