Simon Pietersz Verelst (1644–1721?) was a
Dutch Golden Age
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painter. He is known for outstanding flower and fruit still life paintings.
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Biography
Verelst was born in The Hague
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. He was the son of Pieter Harmensz Verelst and became a pupil in the Confrerie Pictura
The Confrerie Pictura was a more or less academic club of artists founded in 1656 in The Hague (the Netherlands) by local art painters, who were unsatisfied by the Guild of Saint Luke there.
History
The guild of St. Luke in the Hague existed a ...
at the same time as his brother Herman
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in 1663.[Simon Pietersz Verelst]
in the RKD
The Netherlands Institute for Art History or RKD (Dutch: RKD-Nederlands Instituut voor Kunstgeschiedenis), previously Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie (RKD), is located in The Hague and is home to the largest art history center i ...
In 1668 he moved to London and on 11 April 1669 he met with Samuel Pepys
Samuel Pepys (; 23 February 1633 – 26 May 1703) was an English diarist and naval administrator. He served as administrator of the Royal Navy and Member of Parliament and is most famous for the diary he kept for a decade. Pepys had no mariti ...
. His elegant portraits became popular for a time during the 1670s among court circles. He painted this portrait of Prince Rupert
Prince Rupert of the Rhine, Duke of Cumberland, (17 December 1619 (O.S.) / 27 December (N.S.) – 29 November 1682 (O.S.)) was an English army officer, admiral, scientist and colonial governor. He first came to prominence as a Royalist cavalr ...
, son of Frederick V, Count Palatine and Elizabeth Stuart. It seems Verelst began to suffer from bouts of insanity, which was reflected in a portrait with flowers on a gigantic scale, who called himself "''the God of Flowers''". In 1709, according to Weyerman
Jacob Campo Weyerman (9 August 1677 – 9 March 1747) was a painter and writer during the period known as the Dutch Age of Enlightenment, Enlightenment. His work encompassed flower and fruit still life paintings, satirical magazines, plays, and b ...
, he lived down the Strand, London
Strand (or the Strand) is a major thoroughfare in the City of Westminster, Central London. It runs just over from Trafalgar Square eastwards to Temple Bar, where the road becomes Fleet Street in the City of London, and is part of the A4 ...
at the art dealer William Lovejoy, who had him locked up for his bouts of unbridled aggression.
Family tree
References
External links
Simon Pietersz Verelst
on Artnet
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Simon Verelst
on PubHist
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1644 births
1710 deaths
Dutch Golden Age painters
Dutch male painters
Painters from The Hague
Artists from The Hague
Dutch still life painters
Dutch portrait painters