Abraham Bosschaert was a Dutch Golden Age painter.

Biography

Bosschaert was born in Middelburg

Middelburg

Middelburg is a municipality and a city in the south-western Netherlands and the capital of the province of Zeeland. It is situated in the Midden-Zeeland region. It has a population of about 48,000.- History of Middelburg :...

. According to the RKD he was a member of the Bosschaert dynasty. Like his father Ambrosius Bosschaert

Ambrosius Bosschaert

Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder was a still life painter of the Dutch Golden Age.-Biography:He was born in Antwerp, where he started his career, but he spent most of it in Middelburg , where he moved with his family because of the threat of religious persecution...

 and older brothers, he signed his works with a monogram; AB, but this was only discovered in 1992. His older brothers Ambrosius Bosschaert II

Ambrosius Bosschaert II

Ambrosius Bosschaert II was a Dutch Golden Age painter who specialized in flower paintings in the manner of his father Ambrosius Bosschaert.-Biography:...

 and Johannes Bosschaert

Johannes Bosschaert

Johannes Bosschaert was a member of the Bosschaert family of still life painters.-Biography:...

 were his first teachers after the death of his father in 1623, but he also took lessons from his uncle Balthasar van der Ast

Balthasar van der Ast

Balthasar van der Ast was a Dutch Golden Age painter who specialized in still lifes of flowers and fruit, as well as painting a number of remarkable shell still lifes; he is considered to be a pioneer in the genre of shell painting. His still lifes often contain insects and lizards...

in Utrecht from 1628-1637. In 1637 he moved to Amsterdam, but by 1643 he had returned to Utrecht, where he was buried on April 4th, 1643.