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• JAN

JAN DAVIDSZ See also:

• VAN

VAN See also:

• JAN DAVIDSZ VAN HEEM (or JOHANNES DE)

HEEM (or JOHANNES DE)  , (c . 1600—c.1683), Dutch painter . He was, if not the first, certainly the greatest painter of still See also:

• LIFE

life in See also:

• HOLLAND
• HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
• HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
• HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
• HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
• HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
• HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
• HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
• HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
• HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART

Holland; no artist of his class combined more successfully perfect reality of See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form and See also:

• COLOUR (Lat. color, connected with celare, to hide, the root meaning, therefore, being that of a covering)

colour with brilliancy and See also:

• HARMONY (Gr. dpµovia, a concord of musical sounds, dpA'ew to join; &plan midi (sc. TeXvil)

harmony of tints . No See also:

• OBJECT

object of See also:

• STONE
• STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
• STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
• STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
• STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
• STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
• STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
• STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
• STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)

stone or See also:

• SILVER

silver, no See also:

• FLOWER (Lat. flos, floris; Fr. fleur)
• FLOWER, SIB

flower humble or gorgeous, no See also:

• FRUIT (through the French from the Lat. fructus; frui, to enjoy)

fruit of See also:

• EUROPE

Europe or the tropics, no twig or See also:

• LEAF (O. Eng. leaf, cf. Dutch loof, Ger. Laub, Swed. lof, &c.; possibly to be referred to the root seen in Gr. Ma-eta, to peel, strip)

leaf, with which he was not See also:

• FAMILIAR (through the Fr. familier, from Lat. familiaris, of or belonging to the familia, family)

familiar . Sometimes he merely represented a See also:

• FESTOON (from Fr. feston, Ital. festone, from a Late Lat. festo, originally a " festal garland," Lat. festum, feast)

festoon or a nosegay . More frequently he worked with a purpose to point a moral or illustrate a See also:

• MOTTO (an Italian word, from Late Lat. muttum, a low sound, a mutter or murmur, cf. mutere, to mutter; the Latin word also gives Fr. mot, word)

motto . Herethe snake lies coiled under the grass, there a See also:

• SKULL

skull rests on blooming See also:

• PLANTS

plants . See also:

• GOLD
• GOLD [symbol Au, atomic weight 195.7(H = 1),197.2(0 =16)]

Gold and silver tankards or cups suggest the vanity of earthly possessions; salvation is allegorized in a See also:

• CHALICE (through a central O. Fr. form of the Lat. calix, calicis, cup)

chalice amidst blossoms, See also:

• DEATH

death as a crucifix inside a See also:

• WREATH (O. Eng. wry, from wriian, to twist)

wreath . Sometimes de See also:

• HEEM, JAN DAVIDSZ VAN (or JOHANNES DE)

Heem painted alone, sometimes in See also:

• COMPANY

company with men of his school, Madonnas or portraits surrounded by festoons of fruit or See also:

• FLOWERS, ARTIFICIAL

flowers . At one See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time he signed with See also:

• INITIALS (Lat. initialis, of or belonging to a beginning, initium)

initials, at others with Johannes, at others again with the name of his See also:

• FATHER

father joined to his own . At rare intervals he condescended to a date, and when he did the See also:

• WORK

work was certainly of the best . De Heem entered the gild of See also:

• ANTWERP
• ANTWERP (Fr. Anvers)

Antwerp in 1635—1636, and became a burgher of that See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city in 1637 .

He steadily maintained his See also:

• RESIDENCE (Latin residere, to remain behind, to dwell, reside)

residence till 1667, when he moved to See also:

• UTRECHT
• UTRECHT, TREATY OF

Utrecht, where traces of his presence are preserved in records of 1668,166g and 167o . It is not known when he finally returned to Antwerp, but his death is recorded in the gild books of that See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place . A very See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early picture, dated 1628, in the See also:

• GALLERY (through Ital. galleria, from Med. Lat. galeria, of which the origin is unknown)

gallery of See also:

• GOTHA

Gotha, bearing the See also:

• SIGNATURE (through Fr. from Lat. signature, signare, to sign, signum, mark, token, sign)

signature of Johannes in full, shows that de Heem at that time was familiar with the technical habits of See also:

• EXECUTION (from Lat. ex-sequor, exsecutus, follow or carry out)

execution See also:

• PECULIAR

peculiar to the youth of See also:

• ALBERT
• ALBERT (1490'1545)
• ALBERT (149o-1568)
• ALBERT (1522–1557)
• ALBERT (FRANCIS CHARLES AUGUSTUS ALBERT EMMANUEL) (1819—1861)
• ALBERT (FRIEDRICH RUDOLF ALBRECHT)
• ALBERT, FREDERICK AUGUSTUS
• ALBERT, MADAME (c. 2805—2846)

Albert See also:

• CUYP

Cuyp . In later years he completely shook off dependence, and appears in all the vigour of his own originality . Out of too pictures or more to be met with in See also:

• EUROPEAN

European galleries scarcely eighteen are dated . The earliest after that of Gotha is a chased See also:

• TANKARD

tankard, with a See also:

• BOTTLE (Fr. bouteille, from a diminutive of the Lat. butta, a flask; cf. Eng. " butt ")

bottle, a silver See also:

• CUP (in O.E. cuppe; generally taken to be from Late Lat. cuppa, a variant of Lat. cupa, a cask, cf. Gr. KuaeXXov)

cup, and a See also:

• LEMON
• LEMON, MARK (1809-1870)

lemon on a See also:

• MARBLE (from Lat. marmor, Gr. pApµapos, shining stone)

marble table, dated 164o, in the museum of See also:

• AMSTERDAM
• AMSTERDAM (NEw AMSTERDAM)

Amsterdam . A similar work of 1645, with the addition of fruit and flowers and a distant landscape, is in See also:

• LORD
• LORD (O. Eng. hldford, i.e. hldfweard, the warder or keeper of bread, hlIf, loaf; the word is not represented in any other Teutonic language)
• LORD, JOHN (1810-1894)

Lord See also:

• RADNOR, EARLS OF

Radnor's collection at See also:

• LONGFORD

Longford . A chalice in a wreath, with the radiant See also:

• HOST

host amidst wheatsheaves; grapes and flowers, is a masterpiece of 1648 in the See also:

• BELVEDERE, or BELVIDERE (Ital. for " fair-view ")

Belvedere of See also:

• VIENNA (Ger. Wien; Lat. Vindobona)
• VIENNA, CONGRESS OF (1814-1815)

Vienna . A wreath See also:

• ROUND (O. Fr. rond, Lat. rotundus, the Fr. is the source also of Du. rond; Ger., Swed., Dan. and Nor. rond)

round a Madonna of life See also:

• SIZE

size, dated 165o, in the museum of See also:

• BERLIN
• BERLIN, CONGRESS AND TREATY OF
• BERLIN, ISAIAH (1725–1799)

Berlin, shows that de Heem could paint brightly and harmoniously on a large See also:

• SCALE
• SCALE (1) A

scale . In the Pinakothek at See also:

• MUNICH (Ger. Munchen)

Munich is the celebrated See also:

• COMPOSITION
• COMPOSITION (Lat. compositio, from componere, to put together)

composition of 1653, in which creepers, beautifully commingled with gourds and blackberries, twigs of See also:

• ORANGE
• ORANGE (Citrus Aurantium)
• ORANGE, HOUSE OF

orange, See also:

• MYRTLE

myrtle and See also:

• PEACH
• PEACH, CHARLES WILLIAM (1800-1886)

peach, are enlivened by butterflies, moths and beetles . A landscape with a blooming See also:

• ROSE
• ROSE (Rosa)
• ROSE, GEORGE (1744-1818)
• ROSE, HUGH JAMES (1795—1838)
• ROSE, WILLIAM STEWART (1775-1843)

rose See also:

• TREE (0. Eng. treo, treow, cf. Dan. tree, Swed. Odd, tree, trd, timber; allied forms are found in Russ. drevo, Gr. opus, oak, and 36pv, spear, Welsh derw, Irish darog, oak, and Skr. dare, wood)
• TREE, SIR HERBERT BEERBOHM (1853- )

tree, a See also:

• JUG

jug of strawberries, a selection of fruit, and a marble bust of See also:

• PAN (" pasturer ")
• PAN (common in various forms to many Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Pfanne; it is generally taken to be an early adaptation in a shortened form of Lat. patina, shallow bowl or dish, from patere, to lie open)

Pan, dated 1655, is in the Hermitage at St See also:

• PETERSBURG

Petersburg; an See also:

• ALLEGORY (iXXos, other, and ayopeuav, to speak)

allegory of abundance in a medallion wreathed with fruit and flowers, in the gallery of See also:

• BRUSSELS (Fr. Bruxelles, Flem. Brussel)

Brussels, is inscribed with de Heem's See also:

• MONOGRAM (from Late Lat. monogramma, in Late Gr. µovoypaµµov, from µovos, single, ypaµµa, letter)

monogram, the date of 1668, and the name of an obscure artist called Lambrechts . All these pieces exhibit the See also:

• MASTER (Lat. magister, related to tnagis, more, as the corresponding minister is to minus, less; the English form is due partly to the O. Eng. maegister, and partly to O. Fr. maistre, mod. maitre; cf. Du. meester, Ger. Meister, Ital. maestro)

master in full See also:

• POSSESSION
• POSSESSION (Lat. possessio, possidere, to possess)

possession of his See also:

• ARTISTIC

artistic faculties .