Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder

Bosschaert (1573 - 1621) was born in Antwerp but he and his family were among the many Protestant refugees who fled to the north. They settled in Middelburg in Zeeland in about 1587. He had begun his training in Antwerp and joined the Middelburg guild as a master in 1593. He specialised in painting precise flower and fruit still-lifes in the manner of botanical illustrat...