Hendrick Andriessen was a Flemish

Flemish people

The Flemings or Flemish are the Dutch-speaking inhabitants of Belgium, where they are mostly found in the northern region of Flanders. They are one of two principal cultural-linguistic groups in Belgium, the other being the French-speaking Walloons...

 Baroque

Baroque

The Baroque is a period and the style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, literature, dance, and music...

 still-life painter.

Biography

According to Cornelis de Bie

Cornelis de Bie

Cornelis de Bie was a Brabant rederijker, poet, jurist and minor politician from Lier.He is the author of about 64 works, mostly comedies...

, he was born in Antwerp and died in Zeeland

Zeeland

Zeeland , also called Zealand in English, is the westernmost province of the Netherlands. The province, located in the south-west of the country, consists of a number of islands and a strip bordering Belgium. Its capital is Middelburg. With a population of about 380,000, its area is about...

. He was known as Mancken Heyn, or crippled Hein, though his still-life paintings were highly regarded and weren't at all crippled. He joined the Guild of St. Luke in Antwerp in 1637. He is known mainly as a still-life painter.

Many paintings formerly attributed to Pieter van der Willigen

Pieter van der Willigen

Pieter van der Willigen was a Flemish Baroque painter.-Biography:According to Cornelis de Bie, he was born in Bergen op Zoom and was a good still-life painter. According to the RKD, he became a pupil of Thomas Willeboirts Bosschaert in 1652, was a member of the Guild of St. Luke from 1655 to 1669,...

have since been reassigned to Andriessen.

External links

• The Collection of Dutch and Flemish Still-Life Paintings Bequeathed by Daisy Linda Ward ... By Fred G. Meijer; P. 154.