Thomas van Apshoven

[1] He was born on 30 November 1622 in Antwerp as the eldest son of Ferdinand van Apshoven the Elder and Leonora Wijns.

His father was a painter who had studied with Adam van Noort and had become a master of the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke in 1596.

Some sources state that he became a pupil of the prominent genre painter David Teniers the Younger.

The godfathers of the children included the painters Victor Wolfvoet and Jan van Kessel the Elder.

[1] He also made copies after works of Teniers such as the Old woman and two peasants in a barn with a splendid kitchen still life (Dorotheum (Vienna) auction of 17 October 2007, lot 440).

[7] A still life of Fruit, a roemer, oysters and a plate with a lemon has also been attributed to him (Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister).