Nicolaes Gillis

Nicolaes Gillis (1593, Antwerp – 1630, Haarlem), was a Dutch Golden Age still life painter.[1]

Biography

Gillis was one of the first artists to paint independent still life paintings and is considered a pioneer of the Haarlem fruit and flower still life.[2] His oeuvre consists of fruit and flower still lifes and he was one of the first few painters of the banketje, or "breakfast still life".[3] After training in Antwerp, where Gillis learned much from Osias Beert, he moved to Haarlem, bringing these Antwerp influences with him. Research has revealed a fruitful exchange of influences with his colleague Floris van Dyck.[3] [4]

He married Tanneken Abeels in Haarlem in 1615 and is documented there up to his passing in 1630.[3]

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