Pieter Meert
Portrait of a Man
Pieter Meert (name variations: Petrus Meert, Peeter Meert, Peeter Meerte, Pieter Meerte, Peeter Merten, Petrus Meerte) (c. 1620 – 1669) was a Flemish Baroque painter known for his portraits and genre paintings.[1]
He was born in Brussels. The early Flemish biographer Cornelis De Bie reports in his Het Gulden Cabinet published in 1662 that Meert was well known as a portrait painter, who imitated the style of Anthony van Dyck.[2] According to the Dutch biographer Arnold Houbraken he was a good portrait painter whose works hung in various guild halls in Brussels.[3]
Peter Capuyns was his pupil.[1]
References
- 1 2 Pieter Meert at the Netherlands Institute for Art History (Dutch)
- ↑ Cornelis de Bie, Het Gulden Cabinet vande Edel Vry Schilder-Const, 1662, p. 351-352 (Dutch)
- ↑ Peeter Meert in Arnold Houbraken, Schouburg, Volume 2, page 50 (Dutch)
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- Bryan, Michael (1889). Walter Armstrong & Robert Edmund Graves, ed. Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical (Volume II L-Z). York St. #4, Covent Garden, London; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized 18 May 2007: George Bell and Sons. p. 131.
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