His excellence in this department excited the admiration of Rubens, who frequently employed him to paint animals, fruit and still life in his own pictures, and he assisted Jacob Jordaens, Thomas Willeboirts Bosschaert and other artists in a similar manner.

File: Ambrosius Bosschaert, the Elder 03. jpg | Composed Bouquet of Spring Flowers, by Ambrosius Bosschaert, c. 1620 ( Louvre Museum )

Bosschaert became one of the first artists to specialise in still life, and in doing so he started a tradition of painting detailed flower bouquets, which typically consisted of tulips, roses and an exotic species.

At the time of his death, Bosschaert commanded a thousand amateur painters for the production of one floral painting.

He was not clever at figures, and he sometimes trusted for these to the co-operation of Cornelius Schut or Thomas Willeboirts Bosschaert, whilst his architectural backgrounds were sometimes executed by Quellyn.

Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder ( 18 January 1573 – 1621 ) was a still life painter of the Dutch Golden Age.

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

Savery had considerable influence on the Bosschaert dynasty.

Bosschaert died in The Hague.

File: Ambrosius Bosschaert, the Elder 06. jpg

File: Ambrosius Bosschaert, the Elder 02. jpg

File: Ambrosius Bosschaert, the Elder 01. jpg

File: Ambrosius Bosschaert, the Elder 03. jpg

Fruit still life with shells painted by Balthasar van der Ast. His sons and his pupil and brother-in-law, Balthasar van der Ast, were among those to uphold the Bosschaert dynasty which continued until the mid-17th century.

* January 18 – Ambrosius Bosschaert, Dutch painter ( d. 1621 )

No surviving flower-pieces by them are known, but many survive by the leading specialists, Jan Brueghel the Elder and Ambrosius Bosschaert, who both remained in the Flemish south of the Netherlands.

File: Ambrosius Bosschaert, the Elder 04. jpg | Ambrosius Bosschaert ( 1573-1621 ), Still-Life of Flowers, ( 1614 ) on copper, Getty Museum

Led by the Catholic architect-painters Jacob van Campen and Pieter Post, other major Catholic artists of the day such as Gerard van Honthorst, Jacob Jordaens, Thomas Willeboirts Bosschaert, Theodoor van Thulden, Caesar van Everdingen, Salomon de Bray, Pieter Soutman, Gonzales Coques, Pieter de Grebber, Adriaen Hanneman and Jan Lievens filled the Oranjezaal (" Orange Hall " ) with paintings glorifying the late prince.

Bouquet in an Arched Window, Ambrosius Bosschaert, circa 1618-1620.

`` I have just come from viewing a man who had made the fortune of his country, but now is working all night in order to support his family '', he reflected.

While studying at the seminary in Andover, Adoniram had been working on a New Testament translation from the original Greek.

His casual, dreamlike working methods, often as not in absentia, were an abrupt change from Harburg's, so that Arlen had to adjust again to another approach to collaboration.

The working test of `` the facts '' must always be the best available description obtainable from scholars and scientists who have applied their methods of investigation to relevant situations.

They had risen from humble beginnings by their own diligence and astuteness, they were unfettered by the codes that bound nobles like Othon or even the older generation of clerks like Hotham, and they were working for an end that their opponents had never even visualized.

Marlene ( surname: Adamo ), 25, a Brazilian divorcee who learned the dance from Arabic friends in Paris, now lives on Manhattan's West Side, is about the best belly dancer working the Casbah, loves it so much that she dances on her day off.

We should hope that peace corps projects will be truly international and that our citizens will find themselves working alongside citizens of the host country and also volunteers from other lands.

It's best to buy them fresh from a dealer who is working to improve them.

When changing from one color to another, whether working on right or wrong side, pick up the new strand from underneath dropped strand.

In working, always slip marker from one needle to another.

`` When working from one of my sketches I square it up and project its linear form freehand to the watercolor sheet with charcoal.

Field operations were transferred from administrative personnel primarily engaged in other tasks to specially trained teams of full-time African investigators ( three teams, each working in two provinces ).

in working with these patients the therapist eventually gets to do some at least private mulling over of the possible meaning of a belch, or the passage of flatus, not only because he is reduced to this for lack of anything else to analyze, but also because he learns that even these animal-like sounds constitute forms of communication in which, from time to time, quite different things are being said, long before the patient can become sufficiently aware of these, as distinct feelings and concepts, to say them in words.

Philosophy can prevent the working scientist from becoming slothful and self-content by noting the assumptions and level at which a hypothesis or theory is framed.

Under pressure from parents, the majority of Brooklyn College girls major in education since that co-ordinates best with marriage plans -- limited graduate study requirement and convenient working hours.

It recommends that the United States `` seek instead to detach the Castro regime from the Communist bloc by working for a diplomatic detente and a resumption of trade relations ; ;

We have not the leisure, or the patience, or the skill, to comprehend what was working in the mind and heart of a then recent graduate from the Harvard Divinity School who would muster the audacity to contradict his most formidable instructor, the majesterial Andrews Norton, by saying that, while he believed Jesus `` like other religious teachers '', worked miracles, `` I see not how a miracle proves a doctrine ''.

Several times it came near breaking, and there were in fact some lovely peals of thunder from Jerry Mulligan's big band, which is about as fine an aggregation as has come along in the jazz business since John Hammond found Count Basie working in a Kansas City trap.

And many advertisers have been happy with the results of letting a Negro disc jockey phrase the commercial in his own words, working only from a fact sheet.

After Thomas Aquinas wrote his theology, working from Moerbeke's translations, the demand for Aristotle's writings grew and the Greek manuscripts returned to the West, stimulating a revival of Aristotelianism in Europe that continued into the Renaissance.

Christie describes entirely different working methods for every book in her autobiography thus contradicts this claim, more likely from theatre, screen film and TV adaptations that vary perpetrators to keep viewers coming back.

Japp is an Inspector from Scotland Yard and appears in many of the stories trying to solve the cases Poirot is working on.

Armenia's severe trade imbalance has been offset somewhat by international aid, remittances from Armenians working abroad, and foreign direct investment.

Despite marked progress, Armenia still suffers from a large trade imballance and is still largely dependent upon foreign aid and remittances from Armenian nationals working abroad, and members of the diaspora donating aid through non-governmental organizations ( NGOs ) such as churchES.