Willem Claesz Heda
(Dutch, 1594-1670)
Dutch painter, born at Haarlem, one of the earliest Dutch artists devoted exclusively to the painting of still life. He was a contemporary and comrade of Dirck Hals, akin to him in pictorial touch and technical execution. But Heda was more careful and finished than Hals, showing considerable skill and taste in the arrangement and colouring of his chased cups, beakers and tankards of both precious and inferior metals. Nothing is so appetizing as his fare: delicacies such as oysters upon rich plate, and seldom without cut lemon, bread, champagne, olives and pastry. Even the more commonplace meals have charm, comprising sliced ham, bread, walnuts and beer.
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This person died over 70 years ago (in 1670).