Carstian Luyckx was a Flemish painter

Painting

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. Other spellings of his name include Christiaan, Christian, Lycksc and Luycks. Born in Antwerp, Belgium about 1623, he was especially known for painting still lifes

Still life

A still life is a work of art depicting mostly inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which may be either natural or man-made...

 and vanitas

Vanitas

In the arts, vanitas is a type of symbolic work of art especially associated with Northern European still life painting in Flanders and the Netherlands in the 16th and 17th centuries, though also common in other places and periods. The word is Latin, meaning "emptiness" and loosely translated...

. While his name is not as widely known today, he was held in great regard and was very successful in his time. Luyckx later moved to France

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

, where he was able to influence other vanitas painters, including Simon Renard de St. André

Simon Renard de St. André

Simon Renard de St. André was a painter and copperplate engraver born in the 17th century in France. In his lifetime, he was regarded as a highly skilled portraitist...

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