A peacock and chickens with other birds beyond in the garden of a Neoclassical villa

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Pieter Casteels III (Antwerp 1684-1749 Richmond)
A peacock and chickens with other birds beyond in the garden of a Neoclassical villa
signed and dated 'PCasteels F 1720' (PC linked, lower right)
oil on canvas
60¾ x 65 3/8 in. (154.3 x 166 cm.)

Provenance

Miss P.M. Horne, The Manor, Shipton-on-Cherwell.
with Leggatt Brothers, London, 1969, from whom acquired by
Edmund Roche, 5th Baron Fermoy (1939-1984), for the dining room at Eddington House, and by descent to the present owner.

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Lot Essay

Pieter Casteels was born in Antwerp where he studied painting with his father before emigrating to London in 1708 with his brother-in-law, Pieter Tillemans, a painter of country house views and sporting scenes. Although Casteels briefly returned to Antwerp in 1713 to become a Master, his main practice was in London where he specialised in paintings of assemblies of birds often set against elaborate, architectural backdrops, much in the manner of Melchior de Hondecoeter. Casteels was made Director of the Kneller Academy in 1711 and his success in England enabled him to retire in 1735. He died in Richmond, Surrey, on 16 May 1749.

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