Pieter Hermansz Verelst

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Pieter Hermansz Verelst
Bornc. 1618
Dordrecht
Diedc. November 1678
England
CitizenshipDutch
Occupationpainter
Years active1640-1678
Spouses
  • Adriana van Gesel ​(m. 11 July 1638–⁠before September 1659)
  • Elisabeth Schölts (m. 30 September 1659-c.&nsp;1667)
Relatives


An Italian street scene with Bamboccianti playing cards and a quack preparing concoctions. Verelst, Pieter Harmensz. - An Italian street scene with Bamboccianti playing cards and a quack preparing concoctions.jpg
An Italian street scene with Bamboccianti playing cards and a quack preparing concoctions.

Pieter Harmensz Verelst (c. 1618, Dordrecht – c. 1678 in England) was a Dutch Golden Age painter. Four of his sons, Herman, Simon, John (1648-1679) and William (1651–1702), also became painters. ^ [1]

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Biography

Pieter Verelst was a pupil of Gerard Dou and Jacob Gerritsz Cuyp. [2] In 1638, he became a member of the Dordrecht Guild of St. Luke. [3] In 1643 he lived in the Hague near Jan van Goyen. Verelst produced five supraportes for Huis ten Bosch. In 1651 he went broke. In 1656, he was one of the founders of the local Confrerie Pictura. [2] His pupils were Hermanus van Grevenbroeck, Anthony de Haen, Otto Hoynck, Hendrik Mony, Gabriel Siebrick and his sons Herman, Simon Pietersz Verelst and John (1648-1679). [2]

Pieter had nine children with his first wife, Adriana van Gesel. After her death, he married Elisabeth Schölts, having two daughters. Elisabeth died somewhere between 1659 and 1668. Pieter moved with some of his children to London in 1668, possibly to live with Simon, and died in England in or about November 1678. ^

He is known mostly for genre paintings of Dutch and Italian village life. [2]


Notes

1. ^ A full family tree is given by Peter Hancox. [1] : p. 191 
2. ^ Pieter Verelst's death in England is recorded in his son John's response to an attempt by Simon Verelst to sue him. [1] : pp 176-178  Not knowing of John's deposition, G.H. Veth found evidence of a Pieter Verelst working as a brewer in Hulst and suggested that this could be identified with the painter. [3]


References

  1. 1 2 3 Hancox, Peter (2024). "The multigenerational and cross-national artist family Verelst (c. 1618–1752): The myth of Cornelius and Maria". Oud Holland. 137 (4): 174–200. doi: 10.1163/18750176-13704003 .
  2. 1 2 3 4 Pieter Harmensz Verelst, RKD
  3. 1 2 Veth, G.H (1896). "Aanteekeningen omtrent eenige Dordrechtsche schilders, XXXIX Pieter Hermansz. Verelst en zijne zonen" (PDF). Oud-Holland. 14: 99–112.
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