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Lot 1567 Dα

Pieter III Casteels - A Floral Still Life

Auction 1057 - overview Cologne
14.11.2015, 11:00 - Old Master and 19th Century Paintings and Drawings
Estimate: 7.000 € - 9.000 €

Pieter III Casteels

A Floral Still Life

Oil on panel. 31.5 x 23.5 cm.
Signed lower left: P Casteels.

Peter Casteels III apprenticed under his father in Antwerp, but spent much of his life in England, where he died in 1749 during a more extensive sojourn. Alongside floral still lifes in the elegant manner of Jean Baptiste Monnoyer he also painted birds after Melchior de Hondecoeter.