Andries Bosman

It is assumed that he studied with the Jesuit priest and prominent flower painter Daniel Seghers.

He stayed mainly in Rome, where in 1676 he collaborated with Niccolò Stanchi in the decoration of the Palazzo Borghese gallery by adding flowers to mirrors.

[3] A majority of Bosman's work falls into a distinctively Flemish genre, which is referred to as 'garland painting'.

Garland paintings are a special type of still life developed in early 17th century Antwerp by Daniel Seghers' master Jan Brueghel the Elder at the instigation of the Italian cardinal Federico Borromeo.

[5] It was further inspired by the cult of veneration and devotion to Mary prevalent at the Habsburg court (then the rulers over the Southern Netherlands) and in Antwerp generally.

Even while Bosman followed Seghers' style closely, there are stylistic differences between the two painters' work.

Bosman pays less attention to a meticulous representation of the details of his subjects, while he treats the effects and contrasts of light on objects and space less gently.