Oil on canvas

Signed left below:“P.V. Roestraten” also monogrammed on the red wax seal ‘SPGR’

F.Meijer in cat. Dutch and Flemish Still life paintings bequated by Daisy LindaWard
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
RKD nr 107935

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Pieter Roestraeten was a Dutch Golden Age painter of still lifes and genre scenes.
Arnold Houbraken claims that Roestraeten became acquainted with Peter Lely, a portrait artist in London. Lely introduced him to the court of Charles II, but on one condition, apparently apprehensive of competition, that Van Roestraeten would give up portraiture. He became a skilled still life painter, especially acclaimed for his depiction of silver objects.

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