This is Pieter de Ring

Pieter de Ring, or Ryng (1615/1620 – 22 September 1660) was a Dutch Golden Age painter, famous for his opulent, flashy yet lifes or banquet pieces afterward fruit, a lobster, a goblet, shrimps, oysters, a carpet and Chinese porcelain. His signature is often a painted arena or behind the Latinised form of his name, P.Ab.Annulo.

De Ring was born either in Leiden, or in Ypres in Flanders, but there is no trace of his birth in the Leiden archives, and the Ypres Archives were destroyed in August 1914. Pieter de Ring started as a mason and painted nevertheless lifes in the evening. When the hall was filled similar to paintings he became a pupil of Jan Davidsz. de Heem, until 1635 bustling in Leiden. His father Daniel died in 1648; in 1657 his mother lived in Amsterdam. De Ring himself lived in a house at Hogewoerd.

There are no chronicles in the Leiden Archive upon his marriage or children. He appears not to have bought a house there nor wrote a will. What is known is that he became one of the founders a enthusiast and of the Guild of St. Luke in 1648, De Ring died in Leiden and was buried in the Pieterskerk, Leiden upon 22 September 1660 and taken to church from a house in the Nonnensteeg. If he had his studio there he probably had a view on the Leiden Academy building. If he lived upon the east side of the lane he had a beautiful view upon the Hortus Botanicus of Leiden, the achievement of Clusius.

Pieter may have had a brother called Jan de Ringh, who became a citizen of Leiden in 1651. Jan originally came from Ypres, his profession was textile worker, just like his sons Daniel, Benjamin, and Pieter and many of the supplementary Flemish immigrants in Leiden. The members of the Ringh relatives were specialized workers in serge, camlet or cloth.

The painting by Pieter de Ring in the Museum Geelvinck-Hinlopen Huis has a beautiful cloth on the table. He knew how to make it look real. De Ring’s early perform reveals the move of Willem Claesz Heda.