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WILLEM CLAASZ HEDA (c. 1594-c. 1670)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 196 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HEDA (c. 1594-c. 1670)  , Dutch painter, See also:born at See also:Haarlem, was one of the earliest Dutchmen who devoted himself exclusively to the See also:painting of still See also:life . He was the contemporary and comrade of See also:Dirk See also:Hals, with whom he had in See also:common pictorial See also:touch and technical See also:execution . But See also:Heda was more careful and finished than Hals, and showed consider-able skill and not a little See also:taste in arranging and colouring chased cups and beakers and tankards of See also:precious and inferior metals . Nothing is so appetizing as his " See also:luncheon," with rare comestibles set out upon See also:rich See also:plate, oysters—seldom without the cut See also:lemonSee also:bread, See also:champagne, See also:olives and pastry . Even the commoner " refection " is also not without See also:charm, as it comprises a cut See also:ham, bread, walnuts and See also:beer . One of Heda's See also:early masterpieces, dated 1623, in the See also:Munich Pinakothek is as homely as a later one of 1651 in the See also:Liechtenstein See also:Gallery at See also:Vienna . A more luxurious repast is a" Luncheon in the See also:Augsburg Gallery," dated 1644 . Most of Heda's pictures are on the See also:European See also:continent, notably in the galleries of See also:Paris, See also:Parma, See also:Ghent, See also:Darmstadt, See also:Gotha, Munich and Vienna . He was a See also:man of repute in his native See also:city, and filled all the offices of dignity and See also:trust in the gild of Haarlem . He seems to have had considerable See also:influence in forming the younger See also:Franz Hals .

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