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Ambrosius Bosschaert
Dutch painter and art dealer
Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder (18 January 1573 – 1621) was a Flemish-born Dutch still lifepainter and art dealer.[1] He is recognised as one of the earliest painters who created floral still lifes as an independent genre.[2] 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.[2][3]
Biography
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).[1] At the age of twenty-one, he joined the city's Guild of Saint Luke and later became dean.[1] Not long after, Bosschaert married and established himself