# BOELEMA DE STOMME, Maerten [View the canonical artist record]() ## Artist - Lifespan: 1611–1664 - Profession: painter - School: Dutch ## Biography Flemish painter of still-lifes. Born in Leeuwarden in 1611, Maerten \(or Martinus\) was a deaf-mute \(hence his byname 'De Stomme'\), who was recorded in Haarlem in 1642 where he was accepted as a pupil of Willem Claesz. Heda. He must have been a trained painter before he came to work in Heda's studio in 1642. Boelema's dated works only span a two-year period, from 1642 until 1644. There are about twenty signed still-lifes known by the artist. ## Related artworks - [Still-Life]() - [Still-Life]() - [Still-Life]() - [Still-Life with a Bearded Man Crock and a Nautilus Shell Cup]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()