Andries de Coninck

[4] In 1645 de Coninck was registered as a master in the Antwerp Guild in the capacity of an art dealer.

[7] The couple's son Andries was later active as a lace dealer and broker in Cádiz, Spain.

His brother-in-law Andries Benedetti also painted large still lifes, which followed the innovations of de Heem.

These works typically depict foods and fruits together with a number of precious objects: Venetian glassware, Chinese Wan–li porcelain, silver plates and gilt goblets.

At the same time they are also believed to carry a moral lesson, i.e. they can be read as vanitas paintings, which warn about the fleetingness of life and the emptiness of wealth and earthly possessions.