Pieter
Claesz(b Burgsteinfurt, Westphalia, c. 1597;
d Haarlem, 1660).
Dutch painter of German birth.
He apparently spent his entire career in Haarlem, where
he specialized in still-life paintings. Well over 100
works survive, dating from 1621 to 1660. Most of his
pictures are dated and monogrammed
PC. Since those initials
were shared by the Antwerp still-life painter CLARA
PEETERS, several attributions are disputed.