Education
Van der Vinne was probably his teacher when Collier registered with the Haarlem guild in 1664.
Van der Vinne was probably his teacher when Collier registered with the Haarlem guild in 1664.
His first name is sometimes spelled "Edward" or "Edwaert" or "Eduwaert" or "Edwart," and his last name is sometimes spelled "Colyer" or "Kollier". Collier was baptized Evert Calier in Breda, Noord-Brabant. They both later influenced the Haarlem still-life painter Barend van Eisen.
He moved to Amsterdam by 1686 and to London in 1693.
He returned to Leiden in the years 1702-1706, based on signed and dated works there, but was back in London at the end of his life where he was buried September 8, 1708 at Saint James"s, Piccadilly. The Denver Art Museum, the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the National Portrait Gallery (United Kingdom), the Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam) and the Tate (London) are among the public collections having paintings by Evert Collier.
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By 1667, Collier had moved to Leiden, where he became a member of the Leiden Guild of Saint Luke in 1673.