Painting Paradise
A beautifully illustrated and highly readable book on the art of the garden from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries.
SIMON VERELST (1644-1721)
A Bunch of Grapes
1670-75?Oil on canvas | 46.2 x 35.8 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external) | RCIN 405506
Verelst was a Dutch flower painter who came to London in 1669; this exquisite still life was probably painted a year or so later and shows the artist at the height of his powers. He was later persuaded to become a court portraitist.
