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Jan Brueghel the Elder was the most important flower painter of his time, and the first to make a painting of a vase of flowers a genre in its own right. Many fellow artists in Antwerp followed him and also took up flower painting, including Osias Beert, whose Bouquet in a Niche is composed of a host of flowers from different seasons painted with refined taste but without much attention to the perspective of the setting and without the baroque sense of movement. In this respect, he could be called a master of the immobile.
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