Jan Baptist Lambrechts

[1] Jan Baptist Lambrechts was born in Antwerp as the son of Jacob and Anna Deckers.

Jan Baptist Lambrechts only returned to Antwerp in 1709 where he became a master of the local Guild of St Luke.

His preferred motifs included cooks, maids, vegetable salesmen, dancing farmers and drinkers.

[1] He also created a singerie depicting a A cat judged by monkeys (At Sotheby's 29 - 30 January 2016 in New York, lot 682).

[1] Examples of his artistic output can be found in the Uffizi in Florence and the Hermitage and also appear on the international art market.