Gerardus van SPAENDONCK (Tilborg 1746 - Paris 1822) - Lot 58

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Gerardus van SPAENDONCK (Tilborg 1746 - Paris 1822) - Lot 58
Gerardus van SPAENDONCK (Tilborg 1746 - Paris 1822) Still life with a vase and basket of flowers Still life with a vase of flowers and fruits Pair of gouaches and watercolors on ivory Diameter : 8 cm One monogrammed lower left gvs In their period frames We can compare one of our miniatures with a very similar composition of the same dimensions, preserved in the Louvre (see Miniatures Musée du Louvre, Musée d'Orsay Paris 1994, n° 604, reproduced). Gerardus van Spaendonck studied painting with Guillaume Herreyns in Antwerp from 1760 onwards and moved to Paris in 1769. He exhibited at the Salon of 1777 and became a professor of floral painting at the Jardin des Plantes. He was admitted to the Academy in 1778. Thanks to the support of the painter Claude Henri Watelet he was appointed miniaturist to Louis XVI, then in 1786, painter of Marie Antoinette's cabinet. He was one of the very first members of the new Academy of Fine Arts in 1795. He is the brother of the painter Cornelis van Spaendonck. The pair
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