Talk:Edwart Collier

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I thinks its already been merged. --Spartaz Humbug! 06:39, 16 March 2007 (UTC)


 * 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.