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Jacob Marrel (1613/1614 – 11 November 1681) was a German
Jacob Marrel was born in Frankenthal. He moved with his family in 1624 to Frankfurt, where he became a student of
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at the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, retrieved 30-aug-09 He was active as an art dealer in Utrecht until 1669. He died in Frankfurt. He signed his work with ''Jacobus Marrellus Fecit''.
still life
A still life (plural: still lifes) is a work of art depicting mostly wikt:inanimate, inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which are either natural (food, flowers, dead animals, plants, rocks, shells, etc.) or artificiality, m ...
painter active in Utrecht during the Dutch Golden Age
The Dutch Golden Age ( nl, Gouden Eeuw ) was a period in the history of the Netherlands, roughly spanning the era from 1588 (the birth of the Dutch Republic) to 1672 (the Rampjaar, "Disaster Year"), in which Dutch trade, science, and Dutch art, ...
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Biography
Jacob Marrel was born in Frankenthal. He moved with his family in 1624 to Frankfurt, where he became a student of Georg Flegel
Georg Flegel (1566 – 23 March 1638) was a German painter, best known for his still-life works.
Biography
Flegel was born in Olmütz (Olomouc), Moravia. Around 1580 he moved to Vienna, where he became an assistant to Lucas van Valckenborch ...
in 1627. Attracted by the high prices for flower still life paintings, Marrel studied from 1632–1650Jacob Marrelin the RKD with
Jan Davidszoon de Heem
Jan Davidsz. de Heem or in-full ''Jan Davidszoon de Heem'', also called ''Johannes de Heem'' or ''Johannes van Antwerpen'' or ''Jan Davidsz de Hem'' (c. 17 April 1606 in Utrecht – before 26 April 1684 in Antwerp), was a still life painter ...
in Utrecht (city), before returning to Frankfurt, where he married Johanna Sybilla Heim(ius), the widow of Matthäus Merian, who died in 1650. He took on students, and his wife's daughter Maria Sibylla Merian became a renowned painter of flowers and insects, rivalling Rachel Ruysch as a female artist. She later married one of his pupils, Johann Andreas Graff, in 1665, after a 6-year tour he made to Venice and Rome upon completion of his studies under Marrel.
In 1660 Marrel spent another period in Utrecht, with his student Abraham Mignon, who married and settled there. This is presumably the period in which Maria Sibylla Merian was introduced to Dutch flower painting. In 1665 Marrel returned to Germany, attending the wedding of his step-daughter in Nuremberg and in Frankfurt establishing a school of his own in flower painting.at the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, retrieved 30-aug-09 He was active as an art dealer in Utrecht until 1669. He died in Frankfurt. He signed his work with ''Jacobus Marrellus Fecit''.
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