GERRIT VAN VUCHT | A still life with smoking attributes such as pipes and a burner; and A still life with a wine glass and sliced herring on a plate

Private collection, Ireland.

Throughout his career, Gerrit van Vucht was well-known as an accomplished still life painter. In 1666 he was elected as a member of the Guild in Schiedam, later becoming one of its masters in 1675.

Vucht's still lives often show an affinity, in terms of both colour and composition, with those of Harmen and Pieter van Steenwijck: brothers active in Delft and Leiden. For instance, as in the present pair of paintings, Vucht's pictures usually incorporate yellowish-brown, neutral tones, with backgrounds being painted in variations of light grey.