SEGHERS, Daniel
(b. 1590, Antwerpen, d. 1661, Antwerpen)

Floral Wreath with Relief after Quellinus

1645-50
Oil on canvas, 129 x 95 cm
Staatliche Museen, Berlin

The Jesuit Daniel Seghers was a pupil of Jan Brueghel the Elder. He continued his teacher's painstaking, virtuoso approach. He frequently painted a floral wreath surrounding a grisaille depiction of a Baroque statue by Erasmus II Quellinus.