Willy Van Riet - Still Life - Roses in a Ginger Jar- Oil on Canvas

Willy van Reit – Dutch 1882-1927, Still Life, Oil on Canvas

Willy Van Riet was born in Antwerp in 1887, and trained in his native city. He attended both the Academy of Antwerp and also at the National Institute of Fine Arts, where he was taught by Juliaan De Vriendt (1842-1935), an important religious, history and portrait painter of the period, Director of the Antwerp Academy and later President of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Belgium. Van Riet was awarded the Prijs Van Lerius and the Prix Nicaise De Keyser whilst he was a student; in 1913 he was also placed third in the Prix de Rome.

He was a representational painter with Realist leanings, who produced mainly portraits, flowerpieces, still life works, landscapes and some allegorical scenes. He was also known for paintings of the female figure, which he considered the foundation of visual beauty. He seems to have been influenced by the latter elements of japonisme, since many of his still life paintings incorporate pieces of japonaiserie – painted screens, lacquer chests and boxes, statuettes, chrysanthemums and pieces of silk. He spent the First World War in Holland, moving back to his native Antwerp at the end of the war.

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