Willem Gabron

[3] He initially worked in a monochrome style but developed a more colourful palette after a long stay in Italy.

His father, also called Willem, was a frame and panel maker who had registered as a master at the Antwerp Guild of St. Luke in 1610 and was also active as a decorative painter.

[2] He never married and he left his estate to his brother Antoon and his sister Anna Maria, who had been widowed by that time.

He excelled in the painting of fruit and flowers as well as in the realist representation of golden, silver and ivory objects.

[3] In the early part of his career in Antwerp, Gabron was close to the Haarlem tradition, which is characterised by its monochrome palet.

Willem Gabron responded to de Heem's style in his own idiosyncratic manner rather than imitating him.