Osias Beert the Elder

Flemish(1580–1624)

Works

Osias Beert the Elder was a Flemish painter and art dealer active in Antwerp during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, renowned for his meticulous still life compositions featuring elaborate arrangements of food, sweets, and fine tableware. He is considered a pioneering figure in the development of the Flemish still life tradition, particularly known for his oyster and confectionery pieces rendered with extraordinary detail and jewel-like color. Beert was a member of the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke and his works are held in major museum collections across Europe.

Flemish Oil On Panel Still Life Baroque Detailed 17th Century Luxurious Botanical Nature Flowers Renaissance Botanical precision

Still life with roses, tulips, carnations and other flowers in a Chinese lacquer basket and in a glass vase on a ledge, with a butterfly and a dragonfly

Still life of tulips and an apothecary's rose in a stoneware vase, irises and lilies in a glass vase, together with roses, lilies, anemones, pansies, larkspur, borage and love-in-a-mist in a wicker basket and an oriental lacquer basket, all upon a table-top with cabbage white and red admiral butterflies and a dragonfly

Still life of roses in an oriental lacquer and canework bowl, on a ledge with a butterfly and dragonfly

Still Life with Oysters, Langoustines, Olives, Chestnuts, and Façon de Venise Wine Glasses

Still Life with Tulips in a Glass Vase with Cyclamen and Anemone

Artists in conversation