Dutch Golden Age

These paintings and botanical studies belong to the Dutch Golden Age, with heavy bowls of flowers, oysters, grapes, and single blooms like cyclamen and tulips set against dark backgrounds. Petals, fruit, and shells catch the light while the rest of the scene falls into shadow, giving each arrangement a quiet, close-up stillness.

Still Life with Oysters and Grapes by Jan Davidsz de Heem
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A still life painting featuring a red lobster, various fruits, oysters, and silver vessels arranged on a draped table against a dark background.
Jan Davidsz de Heem
Still Life with a Lobster
oil

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A glass vase filled with colorful flowers including tulips, roses, and peonies sits on a dark stone ledge against a black background.
Jan Davidsz de Heem
Glass Vase with Flowers on Stone Ledge, 1655-60
oil on panel

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A dark still life painting featuring a grey parrot perched on a basket surrounded by grapes, fruits, nuts, shells, and lobsters on a table.
Jan Davidsz de Heem
Still Life
oil

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A dense floral arrangement featuring roses, tulips, and other flowers in a glass bowl set against a dark background, with fallen fruit below.
Jan Davidsz de Heem
Still Life with Flowers in a Glass Bowl
1636 · oil

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A still life painting depicting a glass vase filled with red, pink, white, and yellow flowers against a dark background, with insects nearby.
Jan Davidsz de Heem
Still Life with Flowers in a Glass Vase
oil on copper

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A still life arrangement featuring oysters, lemons, grapes, and a wine glass on a draped blue cloth against a dark background.
Jan Davidsz de Heem
Still Life with Oysters and Grapes
oil on panel

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White cyclamen flowers with dark red stems and variegated green leaves grow beneath a large tree, with mountains and a distant village in the background.
Robert John Thornton
The Persian Cyclamen
1799 · coloured plate engraved in aquatint, stipple and line

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Botanical illustration depicting five hyacinth flower clusters in white, pale pink, dark blue, and black against a landscape background with a river.
Robert John Thornton
Hyacinths
1799 · coloured plate engraved in aquatint, stipple and line

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Four potted auricula flowers in deep red, blue, yellow, and white displayed against a mountainous landscape background.
Robert John Thornton
A Group of Auriculas
1799 · coloured plate engraved in aquatint, stipple and line

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Two potted auricula plants with clustered white and yellow flowers against a misty mountainous landscape background.
Robert John Thornton
A Group of Auriculas II
1799 · coloured plate engraved in aquatint, stipple and line

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A detailed botanical illustration depicting a star-shaped flower with burgundy and pale green striped petals, surrounded by coniferous trees and mountains in the background.
Robert John Thornton
The Maggot-bearing Stapelia
1799 · coloured plate engraved in aquatint, stipple and line

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Seven variegated tulips in white, red, yellow, and purple with striped petals against a cloudy landscape background.
Robert John Thornton
Tulips

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Six variegated tulips with striped petals in red, yellow, black and white displayed against a landscape background.
Robert John Thornton
Tulips
1799 · coloured plate engraved in aquatint, stipple and line

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A botanical illustration depicting various roses in pink, red, white, and yellow with green foliage, a dragonfly, bird, and nest against a cloudy landscape background.
Robert John Thornton
Roses
1799 · coloured plate engraved in aquatint, stipple and line

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Two red and orange bird of paradise flowers with green stems surrounded by large dark and pale green leaves against a mountainous landscape.
Robert John Thornton
The Queen
1799 · coloured plate engraved in aquatint, stipple and line

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A dramatic botanical illustration of a deep purple Dragon Arum flower with green leaves against a stormy mountainous sky.
Robert John Thornton
The Dragon Arum
1799 · coloured plate engraved in aquatint, stipple and line

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A botanical illustration of six carnation flowers with striped petals in red, pink, and white against a cloudy landscape background.
Robert John Thornton
A Group of Carnations
1799 · coloured plate engraved in aquatint, stipple and line

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Botanical illustration of passion flowers with pink and white petals, blue-purple centers, and green leaves against a columned architectural background, 1799.
Robert John Thornton
The Quadrangular Pafsion-flower
1799 · coloured plate engraved in aquatint, stipple and line

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A tall flowering plant with red fern-like blooms centered in a mountainous landscape with hummingbirds and ferns.
Robert John Thornton
Large Flowering Sensitive Plant
1799 · coloured plate engraved in aquatint, stipple and line

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