Ambrosius Bosschaert

Ambrosius Bosschaert
Still-Life of Flowers, 1614, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.
Born18 January 1573
Antwerp
Died1621 (aged 47–48)
The Hague
Known forPainting
MovementBaroque

Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder (18 January 1573 – 1621) was a Flemish-born Dutch still life painter and art dealer. He is recognised as one of the earliest painters who created floral still lifes as an independent genre. He founded a dynasty of painters who continued his style of floral and fruit painting and turned Middelburg into the leading centre for flower painting in the Dutch Republic.

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