Adriaen Van Utrecht - Artist Info

About Adriaen Van Utrecht

  • Biography

    Adriaen van Utrecht was born in Antwerp in 1599.

    Adriaen van Utrecht is one of the best known game and animal painters of 17th century. As a talented epigone of Frans Snijders (1579-1657), he allows this genre to flourish in the region of Antwerp and far beyond.

    He painted fruit, flower and vanitas still lifes, garlands, market and scenes of mainly domesticated birds in the context of a farm. This ‘subgenre’ of poultry at the farm will later culminate in the oeuvre of Northern Dutch painter Melchior d'Hondecoeter (c. 1636-1695).

    Yet something this Dutch painter did not learn from his Flemish predecessor, is the narrative element that Van Utrecht regularly incorporated into his bird scenes.

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