Wild Flowers

Image credit: University of Birmingham

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This painting shows Michaelmas daisies, poppies, honeysuckle and butterflies on a mossy bank. Flower painting was popularised in the seventeenth century by Dutch artists as an offshoot of the general popularisation of still life painting. At first, artists such as Balthasar van der Ast depicted flowers in the midst of other objects and they did not entirely come into their own as the sole subject of paintings until the eighteenth century, as can be seen in works by Rachel Ruysch. However, the most highly regarded flower artists of this early period were the Flemish painters, Jan Brueghel (son of Pieter Brueghel the Elder) and his apprentice Ambrosius Bosschaert.

University of Birmingham

Birmingham

Title

Wild Flowers

Date

1880

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 45.1 x W 57.8 cm

Accession number

A0371

Acquisition method

gift

Work type

Painting

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