Dutch painter
Portrait of Pieter Pietersz Barbiers by Jean Augustin Daiwaille
Pieter Pietersz Barbiers (also Pieter Barbiers Pzn., or Pieter Barbiers II, bapt. October 26, 1749, Amsterdam - October 26, 1842, Amsterdam) was a 19th-century painter from the Dutch Republic and later the Kingdom of the Netherlands .
Biography
Pastoral landscape with figures, 1819, collection Teylers Museum
According to the RKD he was the son of Pieter Barbiers (1717-1780) and the brother of Bartholomeus Barbiers .[ 1]
He became a member of the Amsterdam Guild of St. Luke in 1786, but the group dissolved in 1796 when the guilds were abolished during the French occupation.[ 1] He became a member of the Royal Academy of Amsterdam in 1822.[ 1]
His pupils were his nephew Bartholomeus Barbiers the younger , and the following students at the academy: Carel Lodewijk Hansen , Jan Hulswit (painter) , Johannes Jelgerhuis , Daniël Kerkhoff , Johannes Hendrik Knoop , Thomas van Leent , Jacobus Pelgrom , Petrus Antonius Ravelli , Abraham Johannes Ruytenschildt , Johan Christiaan Willem Safft , Barend Hendrik Thier , Pier Johannes de Visser , and Henricus Franciscus Wiertz .[ 1]
He left fine landscapes, often representing the environs of Geldern and Haarlem .
References
International National Artists People