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Jan van Kessel the Elder or Jan van Kessel (I) (baptized 5 April 1626, Antwerp – 17 April 1679, Antwerp) was a Flemish painter active in Antwerp in the mid 17th century. A versatile artist he practised in many genres including studies of insects, floral still lifes, marines, river landscapes, paradise landscapes, allegorical compositions ...
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View all 40 artworks. Jan van Kessel the Elder lived in the XVII cent., a remarkable figure of Flemish Baroque. Find more works of this artist at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.
- Flemish
- April 5, 1626
- Antwerp, Belgium
- April 17, 1679
1626 - 1679. Born in Antwerp, Jan van Kessel the Elder belonged to a dynasty of famous painters. His grandfather was Jan Brueghel the Elder, and David Teniers the Younger was his uncle. He was a pupil of the history painter Simon de Vos , but was apparently also instructed by his uncle Jan Brueghel the Younger (1601–1678).
This artist specialised in painting botanical specisms and insects, a topic of great interest in 17th-century Euro... Jan van Kessel the Elder, Insects with Creeping Thistle and Borage, 1654. Read about this painting, learn the key facts and zoom in to discover more.
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Jan van Kessel the Elder or Jan van Kessel (I) (baptized 5 April 1626, Antwerp – 17 April 1679, Antwerp) was a Flemish painter active in Antwerp in the mid 17th century. A versatile artist he practised in many genres including studies of insects, floral still lifes, marines, river landscapes, paradise landscapes, allegorical compositions ...
Highly sought after during the artist’s lifetime, Jan van Kessel’s detailed and very lifelike representations of insects, flowers and plants invite the viewer to look closely. He started painting his celebrated studies of insects in the first half of the 1650s, with the earliest dated paintings originating from 1653.
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