Pieter Biesboer

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Cover of Seymour Slive & Pieter Biesboer catalog of Frans Hals paintings in 1989

Pieter Biesboer (born 1944), is a Dutch art historian and prolific writer on 17th-century Dutch art. His specialty is art from Haarlem.

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Career

Biesboer was a curator at Stedelijk Museum het Prinsenhof in Delft during the years 1973-1976. Biesboer became a curator of old masters at the Frans Hals Museum in Haarlem until he retired in 2009. Biesboer's publications include exhibition catalogs and research publications as well as important work for the Getty Research Institute on the Thieme-Becker catalog. After his retirement he began working on the Haarlem pages of the Getty Provenance Index. [1]

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References

  1. Speech by Pieter Biesboer 13 October 2011 Archived 14 July 2014 at the Wayback Machine for the Toledo Museum of Art on the occasion of their acquisition of the Frans Hals painting Gijsbert Claesz van Campen family portrait in a Landscape, itself the left half of a larger canvas, with an extra baby lower left added by Salomon de Bray in 1628

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