Fruit, Flowers and Dead Birds

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Wybrand Hendriks has piled up his bouquet of fruit and flowers against a soft, green background of woodland trees, till it tips sideways and tumbles down the canvas on a steep diagonal, ending in the forms of the two dead birds. They are snipe, game birds to be eaten. An exotic pineapple sits at the top of the arrangement, its weight appearing to have caused the mini avalanche. It’s a multisensory painting and evokes the taste, touch and smell as much as the sight of so much abundance.

Hendriks was an exceptionally versatile artist, producing portraits, landscapes, genre scenes and still-life paintings. He had trained in a workshop that supplied decorative wall paintings for the elegant homes of wealthy art lovers. He was for several years curator of the art collection at the Teylers Stichting, Haarlem (now Teylers Museum).

The National Gallery, London

London

Title

Fruit, Flowers and Dead Birds

Date

about 1780

Medium

Oil on canvas

Measurements

H 67.7 x W 54.6 cm

Accession number

NG1015

Acquisition method

Wynn Ellis Bequest, 1876

Work type

Painting

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