A banquet piece is a still-life painting which was extension and development of the breakfast piece. The breakfast piece was a stable of Dutch still life painting from the seventeenth until the nineteenth century. 

A typical banquet piece illustrates a dining table covered with fine linen, a carpet or another similar textile. The table cloth is adorned and decorated with items such as: gold or silver dishes, fine ceramics, rich and luxurious foods, exotic flowers, flagons of ale, glasses of wine, decanters, expensive cutlery and other exquisite adornment. 

An examples of an artist who utilised the Banquet Piece in their oeuvre is Van Beyeren. Van Beyeren produced these scenes with great virtuosity and a high degree of realism, offering the viewer a scene which was both realistic, intriguing and interesting. As the paintings not only served to highlight the patrons wealth, buy also depict the exotic products being imported from around the world to Holand and Amsterdam.

Please visit our article on Breakfast Piece for our discussion and definition of the Breakfast Piece.

The Aquarelle technique can be defined as: when an artist paints in transparent rather than opaque watercolours. The technique was not popular in Europe until the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries when the technique rose to prominence amongst the artistic community in Britain and France.

The technique was used to great effect by English and French landscape painters during the nineteenth century. 

The technique has it's origins in ancient Egypt where the technique and its visual effect was know to the artists of the age. 

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