Willem Kalf

Still Life with Silver Jug

c.1655-1657
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
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Still Life with Silver Jug, Willem Kalf

Willem KALF
Rotterdam 1619 - Amsterdam 1693

Willem Kalf was born in Rotterdam in 1619. He was the greatest still-life painter of his generation. Occasionally, throughout his life, he painted small scenes of kitchens and barns, but his most typical and most popular works were the so-called pronken (ostentatious) still-lifes that showed costly artifacts of metal, glass and porcelain. Kalf was in Paris between 1642 and 1646. In 1651 he married, at Hoom, a talented woman, Comelia Fluvier, who was a diamond- engraver, calligrapher and poet. In 1653 he settled in Amsterdam, where he worked until his death in 1693.

from:
The Age of Rembrandt and Vermeer, John Nash, London, 1972