Pieter Holsteyn (1614,

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– 1673,

), was a

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watercolor painter and engraver.

Biography

According to Houbraken who called him "Holstein", his father Pieter Holsteyn I was a good glass painter and his brother

Cornelis Cornelis is a Dutch language, Dutch form of the male given name Cornelius (name), Cornelius. Some common shortened versions of Cornelis in Dutch are Cees, Cor, Corné, Corneel, Crelis, Kees (given name), Kees, Neel and Nelis. Cornelis (Kees) an ...

was a good painter.Pieter Holsteyn Biography
in ''De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen'' (1718) by

Arnold Houbraken Arnold Houbraken (28 March 1660 – 14 October 1719) was a Dutch people, Dutch Painting, painter and writer from Dordrecht, now remembered mainly as a biographer of Dutch Golden Age painters. Life Houbraken was sent first to learn ''threadt ...

, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature Houbraken quoted

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who mentioned Holstein together with Johannes Boeckhorst as good glasspainters who painted the scenes of the

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story in the magistrate's room in the

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. In his biographical sketch of

Rochus van Veen Rochus van Veen (1630–1693) was a Dutch Golden Age painter. Biography According to Houbraken, he followed in the artistic footsteps of his father Otto van Veen, who may have been his uncle. Rochus had two sons who also became painters. All t ...

Houbraken mentioned the auction of watercolor paintings in Haarlem in 1706 of insects and birds that were painted in the style of Pieter Holsteyn. According to the RKD he was the son of Pieter I and the brother of Cornelis.Pieter Holsteyn
in the

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He worked in Haarlem, Amsterdam, Munster and Enkhuizen and was the teacher of the painter Josua Breckerveld. He signed his works with the monogram "PH". The painter

Herman Henstenburgh Herman Henstenburgh (1667, in Hoorn – 1726, in Hoorn), was an 18th-century painter from the Dutch Republic. Biography According to Johan van Gool he was very good at copying prints and copied the watercolours of Pieter Holstein, which were ...

was influenced by his watercolors.

References

External links

Pieter Holsteyn
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