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| Title | Still Life with Carnations | |
| Alternative Title | Still Life, Flowers and Butterflies | |
| Collection | Brighton Museum and Art Gallery | |
| Artist | Aelst, Willem van (Dutch still life painter, 1627-after 1687) | |
| Date | 1682 (dated) | |
| Signed | yes | |
| Description | A thistle grows in front of a dark tree-trunk with sky at night. Carnations grow in front of the tree with butterflies, moths, spiders, flies, snails and toads around. | |
| Current Accession Number | FA000108 | |
| Former Accession Number | 83 | |
| Inscription | front lr 'van Aelst 1682' | |
| Subject | still life | |
| Measurements | 49.5 x 40.2 cm cm (estimate) | |
| Material | oil on canvas | |
| Acquisition Details | Given by Colonel R. Waldo Sibthorp 1892. | |
| Publications | Rogers, D., Brighton Art Gallery and Museum: Catalogue of Paintings in Oil, before 1837, Brighton, 1964, p. 25. | |
| Rights Owner | Brighton Museum and Art Gallery | |
| Author | Timothy Williams | |