Pieter Claesz
(1597- 1661)
 

Pieter Claesz was a Dutch Golden Age painter of still lifes.  He was born in Berchem, Belgium, near Antwerp, where he became a member of the Guild of St. Luke in 1620. He moved to Haarlem in 1620, where his son, the landscape painter Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem was born.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter_Claesz

Still Life with Lighted Candle
1627
Oil on panel
26.1 x 37.3 cm.
The Mauritshuis, The Hague
https://www.mauritshuis.nl/en/our-collection/artworks/947-still-life-with-lighted-candle

Christiaen Jansz. Dusart
(1618 - 1682)

Christiaen Jansz. Dusart was a dutch painter. He was born in Haarlem and was a friend of Rembrandt.

https://wikioo.org/en/artist.php?name=Christiaan+Jansz.+Dusart

Young Man by Candlelight
1645
Oil on canvas
65 cm x 79 cm 
Het Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/Young-Man-by-Candlelight--fb1761911e7a4070f5694d5026a36c82

 Anton Romako
(1832 - 1889)

Anton Romako  was an Austrian painter. Romako is among the most impressive and contradictory personalities in 19th-century Austrian painting. Unappreciated by contemporary critics and long forgotten after his death, this painter and aquarellist is now considered a predecessor of Austrian Modernism. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Romako

Portrait of a Young Man
1878
Oil on canvas
80 × 115 cm
Residenzgalerie Salzburg, Austria
https://www.domquartier.at/en/residenzgalerie-collection-online/paintings/portrait-of-a-young-man/

Rembrandt
(1566 - 1651)

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, mononymously known as Rembrandt, was a Dutch Golden Age painter, printmaker, and draughtsman. He is generally considered one of the greatest visual artists in the history of Western art.[3] It is estimated that Rembrandt's surviving works amount to about three hundred paintings, three hundred etchings, and several hundred drawings. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rembrandt

The Parable of the Rich Fool 
1627
Oil on oak wood
31.9 x 42.5 cm
Gemäldegalerie, Berlin

 Yesterday I posted one of the most famous bird painter and today it’s probably the painting with the most birds  ever made…

Franz de Hamilton
(1623 - 1712)

Franz de Hamilton, also known as Frans de Hamilton (born 1623 in Lanarkshire, Schottland; died 1712 in Aschaffenburg) was a German-British painter, draughtsman and engraver of animals, stilllifes und forest stilllifes.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_de_Hamilton

A concert of birds
C. 1700
Oil on canvas
61 x 77 cm
Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Germany
https://www.kunsthalle-karlsruhe.de/kunstwerke/Franz-de-Hamilton/Konzert-der-V%C3%B6gel/E0BAC7194992C75A6002D9A0BD63BA8F/

 Melchior d'Hondecoeter
(1636 - 1695)
 

Melchior d'Hondecoeter, Dutch animalier painter, was born in Utrecht and died in Amsterdam. After the start of his career, he painted virtually exclusively bird subjects, usually exotic or game, in park-like landscapes. Hondecoeter's paintings featured geese (brent goose, Egyptian goose and red-breasted goose), fieldfares, partridges, pigeons, ducks, northern cardinal, magpies and peacocks, but also African grey crowned cranes, Asian sarus cranes, Indonesian yellow-crested cockatoos, an Indonesian purple-naped lory and grey-headed lovebirds from Madagascar. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melchior_d'Hondecoeter

The Menagerie
c. 1690
Oil on canvas
135 x 116.5 cm
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/De-menagerie--85b9126eea1ac505a9e362ec827feb02

Thomas William Wood
(1839 - 1910)
 

T. W. Wood was an English zoological illustrator responsible for the accurate drawings in major nineteenth-century works of natural history including Darwin's The Descent of Man and Wallace's The Malay Archipelago. He studied the courtship display behaviour of pheasants, observing them closely and publishing the first description of the double-banded argus pheasant. He illustrated many books, often of birds but also of moths and mammals.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._W._Wood

Birds of Paradise
1862
Watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
35.6 x 25.4 cm
Yale Ceter for British Art, New Haven, CT, US
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:14150