Still life with dessert - Jan David De Hem

Jan Davids de Hem (Netherlands Jan Davidsz de Heem, April 1606, Utrecht - 1683/1684, Antwerp) - Dutch artist and son of the artist David de Heem. Supposedly a student of Balthazar van der Asta.
For some time the artist worked in Leiden, in 1635 he joined the Antwerp Guild of Artists and the following year became a citizen of Antwerp. Around 1667, he returned to Utrecht, from where he was born, and in 1672 he fled to Antwerp from the French who captured the city.

De Hem was universally recognized for his magnificent images of flowers and fruits. The detail of the image, down to the smallest details, he combined with a brilliant choice of color scheme and a subtle taste in composing the composition. He painted flowers in bouquets and vases, in which butterflies and insects often flit, flower wreaths in niches, windows and images of Madonnas in gray tones, garlands of fruit, still lifes with wine-filled glasses, grapes and other fruits and products. Hem skillfully used the possibilities of color and achieved a high degree of transparency, his images of inanimate nature are completely realistic. The canvases of his brush are in almost all the large picture galleries.