02 — ARTIST
CASTEELS, Pieter
b. 1684 Antwerpen · d. 1749 Richmond · Baroque
BIOGRAPHY
Flemish painter. He belonged to a family of painters who specialized in birds and flowers. He was the pupil of his father, also Pieter, and from him learned the elements of still-life painting which were his hallmark. He was the brother-in-law of the sporting painter Pieter Tillemans, whom he accompanied to London. He was successful, and by 1711 was the Director of the new Kneller Academy in London.
Apart from a brief return to Antwerp in 1713, he passed the rest of his career in London, where he painted numerous still-lifes of flowers, birds and animals. As an engraver he has more merit than as a painter. In 1726 he published a set of twelve plates of birds and fowls etched from his own designs; and, besides these, executed some other plates from his own pictures.
After 1735, he retired from painting pictures, and concentrated on producing designs for a calico manufactory. He died in Richmond in 1749.
WORKS IN ARCHIVE
12 OF 14 RECORDS
- A Family of Chickens 1728
- Birds in Elegant Park 1723
- Birds in Farmyard 1750
- Birds in Parkland Setting 1729
- Domestic Birds in Park 1730
- Farmyard 1750
- Flower Still-Life 1750
- Flowers in Basket 1750
- Flowers in Sculpted Urn 1750
- Still-Life 1750
- Still-Life with Fruit 1750
- Still-Life with Spaniel and Dead Game 1750
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