Gaspar Peeter Verbruggen II (Flemish, 1664-1730)
Still life of flowers against an ornamental stone cartouche

oil on canvas
Unframed: 68.8 x 79.5 cm (27 x 31 1/4 in.) Framed: 91.5 x 104 cm. (36 x 41 in.)

Lady Ayres
Sale; Christie's, London, 17 July 1984, lot 33 (as Follower of Gaspar Peeter Verbruggen II)
Sale; Roseberys, London, 12 March 2025, lot 72 (as Circle of Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer)

Son of Gaspar Peeter Verbruggen I (1635-1681), Verbruggen was born in Antwerp in 1664 and trained under his father from an early age, becoming a master of the Guild of Saint Luke of Antwerp at age 13. In 1705, he fled to Amsterdam and settled in The Hague to escape his debts at home. He received numerous commissions during his time in The Hague and collaborated with Mattheus Terwesten (1670-1757) on many of them, but despite his commercial success, he returned to Antwerp in 1723.

We are grateful to Dr Fred Meijer for endorsing the attribution based on digital images and suggesting a date to the first half of the 1690s.