Pieter Casteels (1684-1749) a Flemish painter and engraver, was born at Antwerp in 1684, and came to England in 1708. He painted birds, flowers, and fruit. In 1726 he published a set of twelve plates of birds and fowls etched from his own designs; and, besides these, executed some other plates from his own pictures. He died at Richmond in 1749.Another set of twelve plates, called The Twelve Months of Flowers, was sold at Christie's New York on 25 May 2005 for $1,640,000.(Wikipedia.org)