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Willem Claesz Heda was born on this day December 14th, Willem Claesz Heda Dutch Golden Age artist from the city of Haarlem devoted.!
Willem Claesz Heda, Dutch painter (–) Still life with ham and bread, , Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent.
Willem Claesz Heda (1594-1680)
Still Life with Pie, Silver Ewer & Crab
(1658) By Willem Claesz Heda.
Frans Halsmuseum, Haarlem.
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Biography
Willem Claeszoon Heda, a member of the Haarlem school of Dutch Realism, was an important contributor to vanitasstill life painting of the 17th century.
In particular, he is noted for his mastery of the genre known as "breakfast pieces" (ontbijt or ontbijtjes), a form of Protestant Reformation Art, which frowned upon human gluttony and sensual indulgence.
Today, Heda and his contemporary Pieter Claesz (1597-1660) are considered to be the most influential representatives of this genre of Vanitas painting, and rank alongside other Old Masters involved in "banquet pieces" (pronkstilleven), such as Harmen van Steenwyck (1612-56) of the Delft school; Willem Kalf (1619-93) and Rachel Ruysch (1664-1750) from Amsterdam; Jan D