Flowers, Shells and Insects Balthasar van der Ast Tie

Now available! Double sided printed ties! Twice as nice! Still Life of Flowers, Shells and Insects (c. 1635) by Balthasar van der Ast is a vintage fine art baroque floral painting. A bouquet of wildflowers and garden roses in a seashell vase with shells, insects, a spider, bee, dragonfly, centipede and a grasshopper. About the Artist: Balthasar van der Ast (1593/94-1657) was a Dutch Golden Age painter who specialised in still lifes of flowers, fruit and seashells. He is considered to be a pioneer in the genre of shell painting and his still lifes often contained insects and lizards.