Pieter van der Willigen

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Still Life with skull, book, pipe, carafe, and hourglass.

Pieter van der Willigen (17 December 1634 – 8 June 1694) was a Flemish Baroque painter.

Biography[edit]

According to Cornelis de Bie, he was born in Bergen op Zoom and was a good still-life painter.[1] According to the RKD, he became a pupil of Thomas Willeboirts Bosschaert in 1652, was a member of the Guild of St. Luke from 1655 to 1669, and became poorter in Antwerp in 1661.[2] He is known as a still-life painter who influenced David Bailly. In 1662 his brother Jan van der Willigen was his pupil.[2] He died in Antwerp.[2]

Many paintings formerly attributed to him have been re-attributed to Hendrick Andriessen, especially those with a wreath of straw on top of a skull.[2] Today very few works remain that can be attributed to him, though De Bie wrote a page-long poem about his "still" paintings, and Houbraken also included a poem about his still-life paintings from another source.[3]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Het Gulden Cabinet, p 529
  2. ^ a b c d Pieter van der Willigen in the RKD
  3. ^ (in Dutch) Pieter van der Willigen biography in De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature