Christoffel van den Berghe

Christoffel van den Berghe was a Flemish-born artist who worked in Middelburg, where he can be traced securely up to 1628. Van den Berghe is thought possibly to have been a pupil of the Flemish flower painter Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder (1573-1621), and his landscapes recall those of Jan Brueghel the Elder (1568-1625). 

A Still life of game was sold at Middelburg in 1779, described as being signed with the 'CVB' monogram (like the present work) and dated 1642, but this may have been a mistranscription, since the painting would appear in every aspect to be identical with the picture in the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, dated 1624 - one of the earliest examples of a 'game piece' in Dutch art.¹ Records also state that he painted a kitchen scene in 1642, and the present work counts as further evidence of the artist's continued career after 1628.

¹ https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/588/christoffel-van-den-berghe-still-life-with-dead-birds-flemish-1624/