Claes van Heussen - Fruit and Vegetable Seller - WGA11392

Claes van Heussen - still life with fruit and butterflies 1610-1633 FHM01 OS-I-152

Claes van Heussen (1598 – 1633, Haarlem), was a

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still life painter who died young.

Biography

According to the

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he was a still life painter whose birthplace is unknown.Claes van Heussen in the

He is known for a few fruit still lifes and vanitas pieces during a very short period in Haarlem. He was first registered in Haarlem in 1625, and in 1631 he declared he was 32, and in 1633 his wife is mentioned in a document as a widow. One of his market scenes is adorned with the figure of a young woman reaching in a basket, that was painted by

Frans Hals Frans Hals the Elder (, , ; – 26 August 1666) was a Dutch Golden Age painter, chiefly of individual and group portraits and of genre works, who lived and worked in Haarlem. Hals played an important role in the evolution of 17th-century gro ...

. In the notes on town meetings in the archives of the

Haarlem Guild of St. Luke The Haarlem Guild of Saint Luke was first a Christian, and later a city Guild for various trades falling under the patron saints Luke the Evangelist and Saint Eligius. History During the lifetime of Geertgen tot Sint Jans, there was probably ...

under April 4, 1633, the surgeon Jan Snijder and

Pieter Jansz Saenredam Pieter Jansz. Saenredam (9 June 1597 – buried 31 May 1665) was a painter of the Dutch Golden Age, known for his distinctive paintings of whitewashed church interiors such as '' Interior of St Bavo's Church in Haarlem'' and '' Interior of the ...

declared to the mayors of Haarlem that all paintings on a list belonged to the estate of Claes van Heussen, in the name of his widow.De archiefbescheiden van het St. Lukasgilde te Haarlem 1497-1798, Hessel Miedema, 1980, Van Heussen was listed in the guild, but without noting the year of membership.

References

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