Vintage Harbour Scene with Fish Poster

A beautiful print of a vintage image "Harbour Scene with Fish" painted in 1660 by Jan van Kessel (1626 - 1679). Kessel was a Flemish painter active in Antwerp in the mid 17th century. He was a versatile artist who practiced in many genres including studies of insects, floral still lifes, marines, river landscapes, paradise landscapes, allegorical compositions, and scenes with animals and genre scenes. He was the grandson of Jan Brueghel the Elder as well as a relative of the earlier generation of Flemish painters such as Daniel Seghers, Joris Hoefnagel and Frans Snyders. Van Kessel’s works was highly prized by his contemporaries and were collected by skilled artisans, wealthy merchants, nobles and foreign luminaries throughout Europe.