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{{short description|American painter}}
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[[File:Severin Roesen - Still Life with Fruit - Google Art Project.jpg|thumb|333px|''Still Life with a Basket of Fruit'',]]
'''Severin Roesen''' (c. 1815 in [[Boppard]] – c. 1872) was a [[Prussia
==Life==
[[File:Severin Roesen - Two-Tiered Still Life with Fruit and Sunset Landscape - Google Art Project.jpg|thumb|250px|left|''Still Life with Fruit'', [[Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art]]]]
Born to Stephanus and Margaretha (née Krebs) in [[Boppard]], [[Prussia]] (now [[Germany]]), Severin Roesen was born in 1815 and baptized on February 5, 1816.<ref name=":0" />
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The ''Williamsport Sun and Banner'' reported in 1895, "His studio was much frequented by his friends, who would sit all day with this genial, well
</ref>[[File:Severin Roesen, American (born Germany), 1816 - c. 1872 - Flower Still Life with Bird's Nest - Google Art Project.jpg|thumb|''Flower Still Life with Bird's Nest'']]
A large number of Roesen's paintings were discovered in Williamsport. His pictures of nature's abundance found a ready market in the town's growing population (many of German descent) of prosperous merchants and lumbermen, who purchased them to adorn their newly built homes as well as taverns, restaurants, and hotels. One hotelier and brewer, Jacob Flock, owned more than fifty paintings by Roesen, which the artist appears to have traded for lodging and beer.
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Numerous items in ''Fruit and Wine Glass'', for example, also appear in other paintings. A footed dessert plate full of [[strawberry|strawberries]] is a common motif. A [[pilsner]] glass, sometimes accompanied by an open bottle of [[Champagne (wine)|champagne]], is interchangeable with a wine [[goblet]] filled with lemonade used elsewhere. The glass is nearly always placed at the lower left edge of the painting; a halved [[lemon]] often appears nearby. Branches full of [[grapes]] arranged from lower left to upper right provide the composition with a graceful S-curve and subtly lead the viewer's eye over the entire display. Here the composition is balanced by light and dark grapes at either side and filled in by scattered [[raspberry|raspberries]], [[cherry|cherries]], [[peach]]es, [[apple]]s, [[pear]]s, and [[apricot]]s. Many of these compositional elements, if not the items depicted, were derived from seventeenth-century [[Netherlands|Dutch]] still life paintings by such artists as [[Jan van Huysum]].
<gallery mode="packed" heights="179px" caption="Severin Roesen's paintings">
File:Brooklyn Museum - Still Life with Fruit - Severin Roesen - overall.jpg|''Still Life with Fruit'', [[Brooklyn Museum of Art]]
File:Severin Roesen - Still Life, Flowers and Fruit.jpg|
File:Severin Roesen - Still Life with a Basket of Fruit.jpg|''Still Life with a Basket of Fruit'', [[Saint Louis Art Museum]]
File:Severin Roesen.jpg|''Fruit Holiday'' (detail)
File:Severin Roesen - Still Life With Fruit (1850).jpg| ''Still Life With Fruit'', in the [[White House]]
File:Severin Roesen - Fruit and Wine Glass.jpg|''Fruit and Wine Glass''
File:Fruit Still Life in a Landscape LACMA M.77.126.jpg|''Fruit Still Life in a Landscape''
</gallery>
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