_W. K. Heda_ (Dutch: 1594-1678)
One of the painters "of the kitchen and dining-room--painters
who devoted themselves to painting copper and silver vessels,
pottery, and porcelain, modest saucepans, crystal cups, glass
bowls, and goblets of chased silver. The first to cultivate
this new style of still life was Willem Klaasz Heda. He was
born at Haarlem. He was a clever and careful painter, and must
have left behind him a considerable number of works; but,
nevertheless, his pictures are excessively rare. They generally
consist of a carved silver cup, a plate, and a cut lemon--three
subjects which the painter rendered with marvellous
truthfulness, the whole surrounded by a few accessories rising
out of a brown background" (Havard: _The Dutch School_, p. 272).