Theodor van Pee
Theodor van Pee's portrait in Jean-Baptiste Descamps book of painters, 1764
Theodorus van Pee (1668–1746) was an 18th-century painter from the Northern Netherlands.
Biography[]
Van Pee was born in Amsterdam. According to Houbraken he was the son of the Amsterdam painter Jan van Pee, who moved to Antwerp and left his family behind.[1] According to Jan van Gool, he was an art dealer as well as a painter, and for a while specialized in painting carved wooden boards used for ornamental decoration.[2]
According to the RKD he became a member of the Utrecht Guild of St. Luke in 1737.[3] His pupils were his daughter, the miniature painter Henriëtta van Pee (who helped him in his studio from the age of seven),[4] her later husband , and the painter Adam Silo.[3] He died in The Hague.
References[]
- ^ (in Dutch) Theodorus van Pee in Justus van Pee Biography in De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature
- ^ Theodorus van Pee in Van Gool's Nieuwe Schouburg, 1750, pp. 272-287
- ^ Jump up to: a b Theodor van Pee in the RKD
- ^ Henrietta Wolters-Van Pee on inghist
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- 1668 births
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- Dutch male painters
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