Adriaen van Utrecht

1599–1652 · Baroque

Adriaen van Utrecht was a Flemish painter known mainly for his sumptuous banquet still lifes, game and fruit still lifes, fruit garlands, market and kitchen scenes and depictions of live poultry in farmyards. His paintings, especially the hunting and game pieces, show the influence of Frans Snyders. The two artists are considered the main inventors of the genre of the pronkstillevens, i.e. still lifes that emphasized abundance by depicting a diversity of objects, fruits, flowers and dead game, often together with living people and animals. Van Utrecht also painted a number of flower still lifes. He was a regular collaborator with leading Antwerp painters who had been pupils or assistants of Peter Paul Rubens, such as Jacob Jordaens, David Teniers the Younger, Erasmus Quellinus II, Gerard Seghers, Theodoor Rombouts, Abraham van Diepenbeeck and Thomas Willeboirts Bosschaert.

37 paintings

• Lady at the fishmarket in Antwerp (1634)
• Large kitchen still life with a young woman (1650)
• Jesus in the house of Martha and Mary (1650)
• Kitchen still life (1646)
• A Kitchen Still Life with Figures, oil on canvas by Adriaen van Utrecht and studio
• A peacock, fruit, boiled lobster and a prey of birds (1653)
• A barn interior with a turkey (1645)
• Birds, including ducks, parrots and a heron, in an extensive landscape (1650)
• Grapes, apples, plums, figs and other fruit on a partly draped wooden table, a monkey eating walnuts by an upturned woven basket (1642)
• Peacock and peahen on a perch, turkeys, a pheasant and poultry by a well (1652)
• Still life of artichoke, asparagus, green cabbage, onions, beans, carrots and other vegetables, all upon a wooden bench (1641)
• Still Life with Fruit and Birds (1649)
• Still life with fruit piled high in a basket, surrounded by quinces, melons and asparagus on a ledge (1641)
• Vanitas - Still Life with Bouquet and Skull (1643)
• Variety of birds including a peacock, turkey, chickens, and ducks with their young drinking, playing and pecking about in a yard (1650)
• Roosters, hens and chicks
• Still life with fruits, vegetables, a monkey and a parrot in a garden (1646)
• Still-Life with Hare and Birds on a Ring (1646)
• Still life of grapes, peaches, cherries, plums, figs, red and white currants, a lemon and other fruit on a table with three birds (1648)
• Still Life with Fruit and a Monkey eating Grapes (1635)
• Still Life with Dead Swan
• Fishmonger's Stall (1640)
• Still Life with Games and Vegetables (1648)
• Voorstellingen uit het leven van Maria en de lijdensgeschiedenis van Christus
• Still life with parrot, an allegory of fire (1636)
• The chicken yard (1643)
• Still Life with Game, Vegetables, Fruit and a Cockatoo (1650)
• Holy Family with the Infant John and Angels (1640)
• Still Life with Grapes (1640)
• Garland of fruit (1644)
• Still life of game (1650)
• A Larder (1642)
• Banquet Still Life (1644)
• En ørn, som er slået ned på sit bytte (1614-1652)
• Nature morte (1645-1649)
• Stilleben med frugter på et bord (1647)
• Høns, ænder og en kalkunsk hane (1614-1652)