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Jeronimus Sweerts

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Flowers in a basket with shells and a bird and a bowl of fruit

Jeronimus Sweerts (1603–1636), was a Dutch Golden Age still life painter.

Biography

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He was born in Amsterdam as the son of Emmanuel Sweerts, a botanist who published a florilegium in 1612. He was a pupil of Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder and after his death in 1621, stayed on with Balthasar van der Ast, marrying Bosschaert's daughter Maria in 1627.[1] Sweerts was the father of the printmaker Hieronymus Sweerts (1629–1696).[1]

He died in Amsterdam.

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