This is the third fully signed painting that I have owned by this excellent, but rare still life specialist. 

 

 

Rare Flemish still life painter.

Active between 1640 and 1654.

 

His first name is sometimes spelt “Guilliam”.

 

The Antwerp Painters’ Guild of Saint Luke recorded Dandoy as a pupil of the still life painter Frans Ykens (1601 – 1692) in 1640.  Strangely enough he was never recorded there as a Master. He must therefore have left Antwerp and settled in another town.

 

Several of his signed still lifes, some of them dated, have been rediscovered. They show the influence of Joris van Son (1623 – 1667) and also of Jan Davidsz. de Heem (1606 – 1683/84), who were both active in Antwerp. 

 

It is clear that his unsigned works must go hidden under erroneous attributions to van Son, or even to both Jan Pauwel Gillemans the Elder and the Younger.

Other paintings have mistakenly been attributed to G. van Deynum. Ten signed paintings are known by him, but all of them with only the initials of his first name.

 

 

Typical of Dandoy is the use of clear light and colours and his rich, decorative arrangement of the still life elements. The peeled lemon appears in several other paintings by Dandoy.

 

 

Because it is such a typical, fully signed Baroque still life in which our painter demonstrates his qualities as an excellent painter.