Artist
Jacob van Walscapelle
Dutch Republic
Jacob van Walscapelle is a Dutch Republic Dutch Golden Age painter. 9 works are cataloged here, principally at Rijksmuseum, most of them oil paintings.
A Dutch artist who specialized in lush still lifes, Jacob van Walscapelle painted glowing arrangements of fruit and flowers in the late 1600s. His Still Life with Fruit (1698) piles ripe peaches and grapes onto a table edge, while Flowers in a Glass Vase (1667) shows delicate blooms against dark backgrounds. Close inspection reveals the careful textures of petals and skins, each petal catching the light differently. Explore his Flowers with a Branch of Peaches (1679) next.
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