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He was born in Antwerp, where he started his career, but he spent most of it in Middelburg ( 1587 – 1613 ), where he moved with his family because of the threat of religious persecution.

He specialised in painting still lifes with flowers, which he signed with the monogram AB ( the B in the A ).

At the age of twenty-one, he joined the city ’ s Guild of Saint Luke and later became dean.

Not long after, Bosschaert had married and established himself as a leading figure in the fashionable floral painting genre.