{"title":"Bosschaert, Ambrosius","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAmbrosius Bosschaert the Elder (1573-1621)\u003c\/strong\u003e was a Flemish-born Dutch still life painter and art dealer. He is recognised as one of the earliest painters who created floral still lifes as an independent genre. He founded a dynasty of painters who continued his style of floral and fruit painting and turned Middelburg into the leading centre for flower painting in the Dutch Republic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBosschaert was born in Antwerp, where he started his career, but he spent most of it in Middelburg (1587-1613), where he moved with his family because of the threat of religious persecution. He specialised in painting still lifes with flowers, which he signed with the monogram AB (the B in the A). At the age of twenty-one, he joined the city's Guild of Saint Luke and later became dean. Not long after, Bosschaert married and established himself as a leading figure in the fashionable floral painting genre.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe had three sons who all became flower painters: Ambrosius II, Johannes and Abraham. His brother-in-law Balthasar van der Ast also lived and worked in his workshop and accompanied him on his travels. Bosschaert later worked in Amsterdam (1614), Bergen op Zoom (1615-1616), Utrecht (1616-1619), and Breda (1619). In 1619 when he moved to Utrecht, his brother-in-law van der Ast entered the Utrecht Guild of St. Luke, where the renowned painter Abraham Bloemaert had just become dean. The painter Roelandt Savery (1576-1639) entered the St. Luke's guild in Utrecht at about the same time. Savery had considerable influence on the Bosschaert dynasty.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAfter Bosschaert died in The Hague while on commission there for a flower piece, Balthasar van der Ast took over his workshop and pupils in Middelburg.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHis bouquets were painted symmetrically and with scientific accuracy in small dimensions and normally on copper. They sometimes included symbolic and religious meanings. At the time of his death, Bosschaert was working on an important commission in the Hague. That piece is now in the collection in Stockholm.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBosschaert was one of the first artists to specialize in flower still life painting as a stand-alone subject. He started a tradition of painting detailed flower bouquets, which typically included tulips and roses, and inspired the genre of Dutch flower painting. Thanks to the booming seventeenth-century Dutch art market, he became highly successful, as the inscription on one of his paintings attests. His works commanded high prices although he never achieved the level of prestige of Jan Brueghel the Elder, the Antwerp master who contributed to the floral genre.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHis sons and his pupil and brother-in-law, Balthasar van der Ast, were among those to uphold the Bosschaert dynasty which continued until the mid-17th century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt may not be a coincidence that this trend coincided with a national obsession with exotic flowers which made flower portraits highly sought after.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlthough he was highly in demand, he did not create many pieces because he was also employed as an art dealer.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"bosschaert-the-elder-ambrosius-1573-1621-a-vase-of-flowers-c-1620","title":"Bosschaert the Elder, Ambrosius (1573-1621) - A Vase of Flowers c.1620","description":"\u003cp\u003eArtwork by Flemish-born Dutch artist Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis download consists of 1 image, in jpeg format, that is 600dpi and 6160 pixels wide by 8524 pixels tall.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe picture is out of copyright and in the public domain, so you are free to use it in whatever way you'd like, including commercial use.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRead more about \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/publicdomainimagelibrary.com\/collections\/bosschaert-ambrosius\" title=\"Ambrosius Bosschaert\"\u003eAmbrosius Bosschaert\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Digital Download - 1 image","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52939320230218,"sku":null,"price":0.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0776\/7965\/7290\/files\/BosschaerttheElder_Ambrosius_1573-1621_-AVaseofFlowers_main.jpg?v=1759261662"},{"product_id":"bosschaert-the-elder-ambrosius-1573-1621-still-life-of-spring-summer-flowers-1621","title":"Bosschaert the Elder, Ambrosius (1573-1621) - Still life of spring \u0026 summer flowers 1621","description":"\u003cp\u003eArtwork by Flemish-born Dutch artist Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis download consists of 1 image, in JPEG format, that is 600dpi and 4092 pixels wide by 5929 pixels tall.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe picture is out of copyright and in the public domain, so you are free to use it in whatever way you'd like, including commercial use.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRead more about \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/publicdomainimagelibrary.com\/collections\/bosschaert-ambrosius\" title=\"Ambrosius Bosschaert\"\u003eAmbrosius Bosschaert\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Digital Download - 1 image","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52939343233354,"sku":null,"price":0.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0776\/7965\/7290\/files\/BosschaerttheElder_Ambrosius_1573-1621_-Stilllifeofspring_summerflowers1621_main.jpg?v=1759261662"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0776\/7965\/7290\/collections\/Bosschaert_the_Elder_Ambrosius_1573-1621_-_A_Vase_of_Flowers_c.1620-2415775.jpg?v=1759261634","url":"https:\/\/www.publicdomainimagelibrary.com\/collections\/bosschaert-ambrosius.oembed","provider":"Public Domain Image Library","version":"1.0","type":"link"}