Pseudo-Jan van Kessel the Younger

The artist's works rely on combinations of a limited number of motifs in rather simple to quite elaborate compositions.

As Jan van Kessel the Younger's small known authentic oeuvre is different in style and execution and substantially higher in quality than the works so attributed were re-attributed by the Dutch at historian Fred G. Meijer to an anonymous artist or a workshop identified by the notname Pseudo Jan van Kessel the Younger.

This Pseudo van Kessel was possibly a Flemish artist by the name of Raffo Morghen or the German painter Gorthard de Wedig (Cologne 1583–1641).

[3] The works attributed to Pseudo-Jan van Kessel the Younger often occur in pairs and occasionally in larger sets.

They are typically small in size and mostly painted on unmarked copper, occasionally on walnut panels, while one is executed on slate.

Still life with fish, vegetables, a cat and a dog
Still life of fruit with a monkey and a dog
Still life with fish, vegetables, flowers and two cats [ 4 ]