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Seghers trained in Antwerp and was a member of the Jesuit Order. Around 1640 he started to paint reliefs with religious motifs framed by garlands. Works of this type proclaimed the legitimacy of images as objects of veneration.
A rhomboidal garland of flowers surrounds grisaille figures of the Virgin and Child with Saint John. This is one of many examples of the collaboration between the Jesuit painter specializing in still lifes and flowers, Daniel Seghers, and the figure painter, Erasmus Quellinus. Their shared works were highly successful among European collectors during the Baroque era. The rhombic ordering of the gr
Daniel Seghers specialised in garlands inspired by those painted by his master Jan Brueghel, although Seghers placed more emphasis on the geometry of the compositions. In this case the central image, which in some of his works was painted by a different artist, is unfinished.
