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This flower piece, signed in full, lower right, represents tulips, roses, peonies and other flowers in a roemer. It is one of the largest flower paintings by the painter painted in the 1650s, most probably conceived as one of a pair.
While Van Kessel was the grandson of Jan Brueghel the Elder and most probably trained by Jan Brueghel the Younger, the precision and clarity of his brushwork here reflects the influence of Daniel Seghers rather than the Brueghel circle.
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