Simon Pietersz Verelst (1644–1721?) was a Dutch Golden Age painter. He is known for outstanding flower and fruit still life paintings.

Biography

Verelst was born in

The Hague The Hague ( ; nl, Den Haag or ) is a city and municipality of the Netherlands, situated on the west coast facing the North Sea. The Hague is the country's administrative centre and its seat of government, and while the official capital o ...

. 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 Herman may refer to: People * Herman (name), list of people with this name * Saint Herman (disambiguation) * Peter Noone (born 1947), known by the mononym Herman Places in the United States * Herman, Arkansas * Herman, Michigan * Herman, Min ...

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. His elegant portraits became popular for a time during the 1670s among court circles. He painted this portrait of Prince Rupert, 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, he lived down the Strand, London 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
Simon Verelst
on PubHist {{DEFAULTSORT:Verelst, Simon Pietersz 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