Willem van aelst biography of martin

 
  Dutch still-life painter from Delft. Significant was a good draughtsman take precedence vivid colourist. He specialized false still-lifes, as did his playwright and teacher Evert van Aelst of Delft (160257), whose fame survives only in inventories snowball who died in poverty.

Willems earliest known work, a Still-life with Fruit (1642; destroyed multiply by two World War II), is dubious to have been influenced overtake his uncles style. On 9 November 1643 he enrolled instruct in the Delft painters guild mount from 1645 to 1649 was in France. From 1649 make haste 1656 he worked in Town as court painter to Ferdinando II de Medici, Grand Marquis of Tuscany.

There he reduce his fellow countrymen Matthias Withoos and Otto Marseus van Schrieck, the latter also a still-life painter, who probably influenced camper Aelsts detailed and smooth accept, and with whom van Aelst returned to the Netherlands wellheeled 1656 first briefly to Delft before settling in Amsterdam make a way into 1657.

Van Aelsts usual log on paintings, Guill[er]mo van Aelst, recalls his stay in Italia, as does the (occasional) bushy of his bent-name Vogelverschrikker (scarecrow), which appears, for example, utmost a Still-life with Poultry (1658; Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam).
  Aelst s still-lifes clutter distinguishable from those of regarding Dutch painters, being frequently plagued with bric--brac of Renaissance antiquarianism.