CLAESZ, Pieter Dutch Baroque Era Painter, ca.1597-1660
Dutch painter of German birth. He apparently spent his entire career in Haarlem, where he specialized in still-life paintings. Well over 100 works survive, dating from 1621 to 1660. Most of his pictures are dated and monogrammed PC. Since those initials were shared by the Antwerp still-life painter CLARA PEETERS Still-life with Herring fg 1636
Oil on panel, 36 x 46 cm
Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam
