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Willem Kalf

Willem Kalf (1619 - 1693) was active/lived in Netherlands, France.  Willem Kalf is known for Still life and interior scene painting, art appraising.

Willem Kalf (1619 - 31 July 1693) was a Dutch Golden Age painter who specialized in still lifes. Later in his life, Kalf became an art dealer and appraiser.[

Willem Kalf was born in Rotterdam, in 1619.  He was previously thought to have been born in 1622, but H. E. van Gelder's important archival research has established the painter's correct place and date of birth.

Kalf was born into a prosperous patrician family in Rotterdam, where his father, a cloth merchant, held municipal posts as well. In the late 1630s, Willem Kalf traveled to Paris and spent time in the circle of the Flemish artists in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Paris. In Paris he painted mainly small-scale rustic interiors and still lifes.

Kalf's rustic interiors are typically dominated by groups of vegetables, buckets, pots and pans, which he arranged as a still life in the foreground (e.g. Kitchen Still life, Dresden, Gemäldegal; Alte Meister).  Figures usually appeared only in the blurre   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2499 characters.]  Artist bio

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