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Ambrosius (AB) (The Elder) Bosschaert

Ambrosius (AB) (The Elder) Bosschaert (1573 - 1621) was active/lived in Belgium, Holland.  Ambrosius Bosschaert is known for Floral still life painting.

Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder (18 January 1573 - 1621) was a still life painter of the Dutch Golden Age*.

He 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 specialized 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 had married and established himself as a leading figure in the fashionable floral painting genre.

He 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 moved with 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 bro   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2686 characters.]  Artist bio

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