Gerret Willemsz Heda
Encyclopedia
Gerret Willemsz Heda was a Dutch Golden Age
painter.
paintings. He influenced the still life painter Jan Jansz. Treck.
Dutch Golden Age
The Golden Age was a period in Dutch history, roughly spanning the 17th century, in which Dutch trade, science, military and art were among the most acclaimed in the world. The first half is characterised by the Eighty Years' War till 1648...
painter.
Biography
According to the RKD he was the son and pupil of Willem Claesz Heda and is known for fruit still lifes and vanitasVanitas
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...
paintings. He influenced the still life painter Jan Jansz. Treck.