Pieter Meert

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Portrait of Pieter Meert engraved by Joannes Meyssens

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]

Portrait of a Man

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. ^ a b Pieter Meert at the Netherlands Institute for Art History (in Dutch)
  2. ^ Cornelis de Bie, Het Gulden Cabinet vande Edel Vry Schilder-Const, 1662, pp. 351–352 (in Dutch)
  3. ^ Peeter Meert in Arnold Houbraken, Schouburg, Volume 2, page 50 (in Dutch)

Sources[]

  • 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.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link)
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