David Rijckaert II [SEP] place of death
David Rijckaert II
David Rijckaert II (1586 in Antwerp – 1642 in Antwerp), was a Flemish painter and art dealer active in Antwerp. He contributed to the early development of still lifes as an independent genre through his delicate rendering of banquets and sumptuous tabletop still lifes.
Life.
David Rijckaert II was born in Antwerp where he was baptized on 9 August 1589. His father was David Rijckaert the Elder, a brewer and a staffage painter of wooden statues who had become a master of the Antwerp Guild of
David Rijckaert II was earlier believed to have been a painter of still lifes as well as landscapes. The current view is that he did not paint landscapes as the attribution of landscapes to him was the result of a mix-up with his brother Martin, a prominent landscape painter. Genre scenes formerly attributed to him were likely by his son David III.
There are currently only about 15 still lifes attributed to David Rijckaert II. He is a relatively mysterious and obscure artist since art historians are still in the process of