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    • Jan van Huysum

    Dutch still-life painter (1682–1749)

    Jan van Huysum

    Fruit and flowers, 1722

    Born(1682-04-15)15 April 1682

    Amsterdam

    Died8 February 1749(1749-02-08) (aged 66)

    Amsterdam

    NationalityDutch
    Known forPainting

    Jan van Huysum (or Jan van Huijsum) (15 April 1682 – 8 February 1749) is the most notable member of the Van Huysum family of artists working in Dutch Golden Age of the 17th and 18th centuries; "by common consent, Jan van Huysum has been held to be the best painter of flowers."[1] Trained in decoration from a young age, he "gradually developed an execution of details of the utmost beauty and finish"[2] creating "wonderful flower pieces whereon drops of water and crawling ants could be seen without a magnifying glass."[3]

    Life and work

    Jan was the son of the painter Justus van Huysum and his first wife Margrietje Schouten[4][5] and the older brother of Ja