Education
lieutenant is possible, although there is no documentary evidence to support this assumption, that he studied for a while under the prominent Dutch still life painter January Davidsz.
lieutenant is possible, although there is no documentary evidence to support this assumption, that he studied for a while under the prominent Dutch still life painter January Davidsz.
He was active in Antwerp and Amsterdam. Very little is known with certainty about the life of Geeraards. He is believed to have been born in Antwerp around 1620.
He trained in Antwerp where he was registered as a pupil in the Guild of Saint Luke in 1634. de Heem who settled in Antwerp in 1636.
He became a master of the Guild in 1644. After starting his career in Antwerp he moved to Amsterdam where he is mentioned in 1649.