A vanitas still life with an elaborate silver vase - Pieter Roestraeten

Oil on canvas
Signed left below ‘P.V. Roestraeten’

Exhibitions:
• Art dealer Betil Rapp, Stockholm circa 1950
• Private collection Sweden, Helsingborg, 1990

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

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.