Pieter Claesz | National Gallery of Art https://www.nga.gov/artists/18426-pieter-claesz
Pieter Claesz, the most important still-life painter in Haarlem in the 1620s, was born in Berchem in 1596 or 1597.[1] He was apparently admitted to the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke in 1620, but by 1621 he must have been living in Haarlem, where his son, landscape painter Berchem, Nicolaes Pietersz , was born. [2] Although it is unknown what date he joined the Haarlem Guild of Saint Luke, the 1634 guild register lists him as a master painter.[3] After his first wife died, he married Trijntien Lourensdr on August 8, 1635, with whom he had twin daughters.[4]
painters skilled enough to contribute to the decorations at the Oranjezaal at the Huis ten