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Still life painting showing a skull, urn, coins and book
Still-life paintings in the Royal Collection

The Royal Collection contains many examples of still-life painting

JAKOB BOGDANI (C. 1660-1720)

Birds and Fruit in a Landscape

c.1708-10

RCIN 402410

Bogdani settled in England in 1688, where, according to George Vertue, he was ‘much encouraged’ by Queen Anne as well as working for William III. This is one of a pair of bird scenes which were probably painted for William III or Queen Anne and first recorded on the ‘Painted Staircase’ at Kensington Palace during the reign of George I.


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