Portrait of Jan van Huysum

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Jan van Huysum

1682–1749 · Dutch Republic

Born
1682 · Amsterdam
Died
1749 · Amsterdam

44 works in the Collect24 Registry

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Jan van Huysum, trained in decoration from a young age, is considered the most notable member of the Van Huysum family of artists. He created detailed flower pieces that showed drops of water and crawling ants clearly.

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Jan van Huysum (or Jan van Huijsum) (15 April 1682 – 8 February 1749) is the most notable member of the Van Huysum family of artists working in Dutch Golden Age of the 17th and 18th centuries; "by common consent, Jan van Huysum has been held to be the best painter of flowers." Trained in decoration from a young age, he "gradually developed an execution of details of the utmost beauty and finish" creating "wonderful flower pieces whereon drops of water and crawling ants could be seen without a magnifying glass."

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