Artist Biography

Willem Claesz Heda (1594-1682), Dutch

 

     Dutch still-life painter, active in Haarlem. He and Pieter Claesz. are the most important representatives of "ontbijt" (breakfast piece) painting in the Netherlands. His overall grey-green or brownish tonalities are very similar to those of Claesz., but Heda's work was usually more highly finished and his taste was more aristocratic. He showed a preference for ham, mince-meat pie, and oysters, and after 1629 never included a herring in his pictures. His son Gerrit (d. 1702) was his most important pupil.

 

Willem Claesz Heda Oil Paintings Reproductions:

Breakfast of Crab 70cm x 70cm (28" x 28") $249 - The Hermitage
Breakfast Still Life with Blackberry Pie 80cm x 50cm (32" x 20") $239 - Staatliche Kunstsammlungen
Still Life 60cm x 80cm (24" x 32") $249 - Gallery of the Duke of Liechtenstein
Still Life with a Gilt Goblet 75cm x 60cm (30" x 24") $249 - Rijksmuseum

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