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Jacob Marrel (1613/1614 – 11 November 1681) was a German
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still life
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painter active in Utrecht
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during the Dutch Golden Age
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Biography
Jacob Marrel was born in Frankenthal
Frankenthal (Pfalz) (; ) is a town in southwestern Germany, in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate.
History
Frankenthal was first mentioned in 772. In 1119 an Augustinians, Augustinian monastery was built here, the ruins of which — known, aft ...
. He moved with his family in 1624 to Frankfurt, where he became a student of Georg Flegel in 1627. Attracted by the high prices for flower still life paintings, Marrel studied from 1632 to 1650Jacob Marrelin the
RKD
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with Jan Davidszoon de Heem in Utrecht (city)
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, before returning to Frankfurt, where he married Johanna Sybilla Heim(ius), the widow of Matthäus Merian Matthäus is a given name or surname. Notable people with the name include:
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, who died in 1650. He took on students, and his wife's daughter Maria Sibylla Merian became a renowned painter of flowers and insects, rivalling Rachel Ruysch
Rachel Ruysch (3 June 1664 – 12 October 1750) was a Dutch still-life painter from the Northern Netherlands. She specialized in flowers, inventing her own style and achieving international fame in her lifetime. Due to a long and successful car ...
as a female artist. She later married one of his pupils, Johann Andreas Graff, in 1665, after a 6-year tour he made to Venice and Rome upon completion of his studies under Marrel.
In 1660 Marrel spent another period in Utrecht, with his student Abraham Mignon, who married and settled there. This is presumably the period in which Maria Sibylla Merian was introduced to Dutch flower painting. In 1665 Marrel returned to Germany, attending the wedding of his step-daughter in Nuremberg
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and in Frankfurt establishing a school of his own in flower painting.at the
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
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, retrieved 30-aug-09 He was active as an art dealer in Utrecht until 1669. He died in Frankfurt
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He signed his work with ''Jacobus Marrellus Fecit''.
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