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17th century Europe was fascinated by botany, leading to a boom in floral still life paintings by Flemish artists such as Jan Brueghel the Elder and Daniel Seghers in the 17th century, with the Spanish proving particularly keen collectors of them. In the second half of the century some Spanish painters specialised in them almost exclusively ...
Vase of Flowers (first half of the 17th century) Small Basket of Flowers, oil on linen, 46.5 x 60.5 cm (c. 1650), Museum of Fine Arts in Bilbao; Flowers in a Vase (1650) Still Life with Flowers (c. 1650-1670) Flowers on a Basket on a Plinth - two images (1664) Vase of Flowers - two images (1664) Vase of Flowers - different image (1668)
Jan Frans van Dael or Jean-François van Dael (27 May 1764 – 20 March 1840) was a Flemish painter and lithographer specializing in still lifes of flowers and fruit. He had a successful career in Paris where his patrons included the Empresses of Empire France as well as the kings of Restoration France.
There are many perfectly identifiable flowers in books like The Book of Hours [11] (two volumes) by the Master of Flowers (Maître-aux-fleurs, 15th century) or Jean Bourdichon's Grandes Heures of Anne of Brittany (between 1503 and 1508), with 337 plants from the Queen's garden, captioned in Latin and French. These artists' objective was, though ...
By the early 17th century the number of plants described in Europe had risen to about 6000. [46] The 18th century Enlightenment values of reason and science coupled with new voyages to distant lands instigating another phase of encyclopaedic plant identification, nomenclature, description and illustration, "flower painting" possibly at its best ...
Still life of flowers in a gilt urn on a stone ledge. Pieter Casteels III [a] (1684–1749) was a Flemish painter and engraver mainly known for his flower pieces, game pieces and bird scenes. [1] He spent a significant portion of his life in England where he had a varied career as a still life painter, printmaker and textile designer.
Ma Quan (Chinese: 馬荃, dates unknown), courtesy name Jiangxiang (Chinese: 江香), was a Qing painter who lived during the late 17th–18th centuries, specialising in bird and flower painting. As a female artist who sold her paintings, Ma's art style is markedly different from both that of the imperial court and contemporary "talented young ...
Jacobean embroidery refers to embroidery styles that flourished in the reign of King James I of England in first quarter of the 17th century. The term is usually used today to describe a form of crewel embroidery used for furnishing characterized by fanciful plant and animal shapes worked in a variety of stitches with two-ply wool yarn on linen .