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Willem Claesz. Heda
(1593/94-1680/82)
Heda, Willem Claesz. (1593/94-1680/82). Dutch still-life painter,
active in Haarlem. He and Pieter Claesz. are the most important representatives
of ontbijt (breakfast piece) painting in the Netherlands. His overall
grey-green or brownish tonalities are very similar to those of Claesz.,
but Heda's work was usually more highly finished and his taste was more
aristocratic. He showed a preference for ham, mince-meat pie, and oysters,
and after 1629 never included a herring in his pictures. His son Gerrit
(d. 1702) was his most important pupil.
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