Andries Daniels

[4] He is first mentioned in 1599 when he is registered under the name Andries Daniels at the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke.

Daniels may have participated in copying works of Pieter Brueghel the Elder during his period of apprenticeship.

[2] He executed a joint will with his wife Jozijnke van der Hoerst on 25 July 1640, which is the last record of his life.

[5] Only one signed painting, the Garland of Flowers around an Image of the Holy Family and Angels (current location unknown, at Galleria Lorenzelli, Bergamo in 1967) bearing the signature 'ANDRIES.DANIELS.F.'

[4] Andries Daniels' flower pieces are close to those of the Antwerp painter Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder to whom they have been attributed frequently.

[4] As was common in Antwerp artistic practice in the 17th century, Daniels often teamed up with another specialist painter to create collaborative works.

Garland paintings are a special type of still life developed in Antwerp by artists such as Jan Brueghel the Elder, Hendrick van Balen, Frans Francken the Younger, Peter Paul Rubens and Daniel Seghers.

This genre was 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.