Alexander Adriaenssen belongs to the record of art as a figure whose work outlasted the taste that first received it.
The record lists Alexander Adriaenssen as Flemish still life painter (1587-1661).
Alexander Adriaenssen was born at Antwerp in 1587. His recorded nationality is Habsburg Netherlands.
This was the period in which the artist became an individual with a signature, a reputation and a price.
He worked as painter, wallpaper painter and decorative painter.
His recorded movement is flemish baroque painting.
Among his best-known works are Still life with dead birds, Still life with fish and Still life with wild fowl. Art history is a record of what got kept, which is not the same as what was best.
That the work was made in Habsburg Netherlands shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Alexander Adriaenssen died in 1661, aged 74. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
Achievements
- Notable work: Still life with dead birds
- Notable work: Still life with fish
- Notable work: Still life with wild fowl
- Movement: Flemish Baroque painting
