Willem Kalf

Artist (Netherlands)

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Kalf (1619 - 1693) was the leading still-life painter in Holland in the mid-17th century. His mature still-life works are of a type called 'Pronkstilleven' in Dutch, meaning 'ostentatious still life' and referring to the display of lavish man-made objects. Kalf was born in Rotterdam and may have been trained in Dordrecht by François Rijkhals. He was in Paris, by about 1...

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