This flawless pair of flower paintings by the seldom seen eighteenth-century Flemish painter, Georg Frederik Ziesel, with their high degree of finish and delicately balanced compositions are typical of the artist’s few known works. He was first recorded working in Antwerp in 1780 where he exhibited at the salon and thereafter in Ghent. Later in his career, he travelled to Paris where he painted alongside a fellow Netherlander, Gérard van Spaendonck. Exceptionally, Ziesel was also known to have made paintings on glass, as seen in the example which was with our gallery in 2012. Another fine flowerpiece on glass by Ziesel can be seen in the picture collection at Nostell Priory in Yorkshire.