Jan Frans van Dael has works in the collection Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
Van Dael's work stands in the Flemish and Dutch tradition of flower painting exemplified by Roelandt Savery with its sober composition and attention to detail.  He also brought to many of his flower arrangements a French-inspired decorative monumentality.Van Dael composed his flower-pieces with a variety of species, which he is believed to have studied from life.  Van Dael's flowers were based on botanical study, and according to a contemporary botanist, van Hulthem, he grew flowers in his garden to serve as models. Van Dael applied a smooth gesso layer to his canvases, which allowed him to recreate the jewel-like quality of 17th century panels.  He departed from 17th-century still lifes in his use of a lighter palette of pinks, blues and yellows.A number of his still life works were used to decorate small objects, such as boxes.  The Fitzwilliam Museum possesses a collection of these boxes.Van Dael painted in 1828 a view of his house (Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam), which is a small masterpiece.  He further painted a few religious and allegorical compositions. One of his best known allegorical paintings is Julie’s Tomb of 1804 (Château de Malmaison).  It depicts a flower and fruit arrangement before a tomb and can be read as an allegory of life and death.  Van Dael also made a few pure landscapes and occasionally painted portraits, often of fellow artists.He also made a few lithographs.
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