Talk:Edwart Collier

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Edwart Collier was a Dutch painter known for vanitas still-life and trompe l'oeil paintings. His first name is sometimes spelled “Edward”, “Edwaert”, “Eduwaert” or “Evert”, and his last name is sometimes spelled “Colyer”, or “Kollier”. He was born about 1650 and died in 1710. He is believed to have trained trained in Haarlem, as his earliest paintings show the influence of Pieter Claesz and Vincent Laurensz van der Vinne. By 1667 he had moved to Leiden, where he became a member of the Guild of St Luke in 1673. He moved to Amsterdam by 1686 and to London in 1693.

The Denver Art Museum, the Honolulu Academy of Arts, the National Portrait Gallery (United Kingdom), the Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam) and the Tate (London) are among the public collections having paintings by Edwart Collier.

Netherlands Institute for Art History (dutch only)
Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart / unter Mitwirkung von 300 Fachgelehrten des In- und Auslandes ; hrsg. von Ulrich Thieme und Felix Becker (1907-1950)
Adriaan van der Willigen en Fred G. Meijer, A Dictionary of Dutch and Flemish Still-life Painters Working in Oils, 1525-1725, Leiden 2003