Jan van Huysum
(1682 - 1749)
 

Jan van Huysum (or Jan van Huijsum) is the most notable member of the Van Huysum family of artists working in Dutch Golden Age of the 17th and 18th centuries; “by common consent, Jan van Huysum has been held to be the best painter of flowers.” Trained in decoration from a young age, he “gradually developed an execution of details of the utmost beauty and finish” creating “wonderful flower pieces whereon drops of water and crawling ants could be seen without a magnifying glass.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_van_Huysum

An Italianate river landscape with figures fishing by a waterfall, a town beyond.
1700s
Oil on canvas
53.5 64.8 cm
Private Collection (Sold by Christie’s in 2018)