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Where did Evert Collier work in Feb 1704?
Evert Collier Evert Collier ( 26 January 1642 – few days before 8 September 1708 ) was a Dutch Golden Age still-life painter known for vanitas and trompe-lœil paintings . His first name is sometimes spelled Edward or Edwaert or Eduwaert or Edwart , and his last name is sometimes spelled Colyer or Kollier . Life . Collier was baptized Evert Calier in Breda , North Brabant . He was trained in Haarlem , where his earliest paintings show the influence of Vincent Laurensz van der Vinne , who became a member of the Haarlem Guild of St . Luke in 1649 , and whose son Laurens van der Vinne listed Evert Colier in 1702 as one of the Haarlem guild members who had known his father . Van der Vinne was probably his teacher when Collier registered with the Haarlem guild in 1664 . They both later influenced the Haarlem still-life painter Barend van Eisen . By 1667 , Collier had moved to Leiden , where he became a member of the Leiden Guild of St . Luke in 1673 . 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 St . Jamess , 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 . The US historian , Dror Wahrman , has written a book on Colliers trompe-lœil works , Mr . Colliers Letter Racks ( OUP , 2014 ) . The book brings together a wide range of the painters still lifes from the late 17th and early 18th centuries , mostly from the time when Collier was living in London . Their themes were almost exclusively arrangements of journals , engravings , letters , medals , combs , sealing wax sticks and other ephemera , signifying an updating of the older memento mori still life model . Works . His works tend to be an arrangement of pieces of paper painted to pop out of the surface in a trompe-lœil fashion . Like Van der Vinne before him , he often included prints , but these tended to be popular prints of the day . 1 . A Trompe-lœil of Newspapers , Letters and Writing Implements on a Wooden Board ( 1699 ) , 58.8 × 46.2 cm 2 . Edward Collier ( 1683 ) , Oil on Canvas , 44.4 × 52.8 cm 3 . Still Life ( 1699 ) , Oil on Canvas , 76.2 × 63.5 cm 4 . Still Life : The Smell ( 1695 ) , Oil on Canvas , 24 5/8 × 20 1/2 in 5 . Still Life : Parliament ( 1695 ) , Oil on Canvas , 24 1/2 x 29 3/4 in , M.S . Rau Antiques , New Orleans 6 . Still Life with a volume of Withers Emblemes ( 1696 ) , Oil on Canvas , 83.8 × 107.9 cm 7 . A Vanitas 8 . Vanitas ( 1662 ) , Oil on Wood , 94 × 112.1 cm 9 . Vanitas Still Life ( 1684 ) , Oil on Canvas , 99 × 123 cm 10 . Self Portrait with Vanitas Still Life ( 1684 ) , Oil on Canvas , Honolulu Museum of Art Notes . Attribution : References . - Netherlands Institute for Art History ( Dutch only ) - Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart / unter Mitwirkung von 300 Fachgelehrten des In- und Auslandes ; hrsg . von Ulrich Thieme und Felix Becker ( 1907–1950 ) - Adriaan van der Willigen en Fred G . Meijer , A Dictionary of Dutch and Flemish Still-life Painters Working in Oils , 1525–1725 , Leiden 2003 Further reading . - Tuominen , Minna : The Still Lifes of Edwaert Collier ( 1642–1708 ) . Ph.D . thesis . University of Helsinki , 2014 . ( On-line version. ) - Wahrman , Dror : Mr . Colliers Letter Racks , Oxford University Press , 2014 . External links . - Web Gallery of Art