Willem.Linnig, still life

Willem Linnig the Younger (20 August 1842, in Antwer September 1890, in Antwerp) was a Belgian painter and engraver who is best known for his history and genre scenes, landscapes and still lifes. He taught for some time at the Fine Arts School of Weimar.

Willem Linnig trained with his father and entered his father's studio at the age of 18. He made copies after the drawings of Willem Jacob Herreyns, an important Antwerp painter from around the turn of the 18the century. He also studied the work of Rembrandt. Linnig went on to study at the Antwerp Academy of Fine Arts,  where the painter Jan Antoon Verschaeren,  himself a pupil of Herreyns, was one of his teachers.