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Abraham Beyeren
(1620/21-1690)
Beyeren, Abraham van (1620/21-90). Dutch painter, little regarded
in his day but now considered one of the greatest of still-life painters.
He initially specialized in fish subjects, but around the middle of
the 17th century he began to devote himself to sumptuous banquet tables
laden with silver and gold vessels, Venetian glassware, fine fruit, and
expensive table coverings of damask, satin, and velvet. Works of this kind,
in which he was rivalled only by Kalf, gave him ever greater opportunity
than his fish pieces to demonstrate his ability to show the play of light
on varied surfaces and organize forms and colors into an opulently blended
composition. He worked in various towns before settling in Overschie in
1678.
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