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Jan van Kessel, Stillleben mit Fischen und Meeresgetier in einer Küstenlandschaft (Still life with fishes and sea animals in a coastal landscape)

Jan van Kessel (Antwerpen 1626 - 1679)

Stillleben mit Fischen und Meeresgetier in einer Küstenlandschaft - Still Life with Fish and Sea Animals in a Coastal Landscape (1661)

 

Jan van Kessel the Elder or Jan van Kessel (I) was a Flemish painter active in Antwerp in the mid 17the century. A versatile artist he practised in many genres including studies of insects, floral still lifes, marines, river landscapes, paradise landscapes, allegorical compositions, scenes with animals and genre scenes. A scion of the Brueghel family many of his subjects took inspiration of the work of his grandfather Jan Brueghel the Elder as well as from the earlier generation of Flemish painters such as Daniel Seghers, Joris Hoefnagel and Frans Snyders.

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