Artist

Juan van der Hamen

Still Life with Sweets
Still Life with Sweets and Pottery
Still-Life of Glass, Pottery, and Sweets
An Offering to Flora

Spanish, 1596–1631

Juan van der Hamen was a Spanish Early Baroque Italian painter. 15 works are cataloged here, principally at Museo del Prado, most of them oil paintings. Juan van der Hamen was born in Madrid.

Juan van der Hamen y (Gómez de) León (baptized 8 April 1596 – 28 March 1631) was a Spanish painter, a master of still life paintings, also called bodegones. Prolific and versatile, he painted allegories, landscapes, and large-scale works for churches and convents. Today he is remembered mostly for his still lifes, a genre he popularized in 1620s Madrid.

Works by Juan van der Hamen

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