Still life with fish and a lobster on a table

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Alexander Adriaenssen (Antwerp 1587-1661)
Still life with fish and a lobster on a table
signed and indistinctly dated 'adriaenssen 16.5' (on the table, lower left)
oil on panel
17 x 24 in. (43.2 x 61 cm.)

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Lot Essay

The son of the composer Emanuel Adriaenssen and brother of the artists Vincent and Nicolaes Adriaenssen, Alexander was apprenticed in 1597 to Artus van Laeck, becoming a master in the Antwerp painters' guild in 1610. His oeuvre consists entirely of still lifes, with known dated works from 1623-1661. Adriaenssen's pictures were much admired by his contemporaries and two were recorded in the posthumous inventory of Rubens, whose wife Isabella Brandt was godmother to one of his children.

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