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Evert Pieters (11 December 1856,
@ the De Valk Lexicon. He had his first successful showing at the Exposition Universelle d'Anvers (1885). He remained in Belgium as a freelance painter and won a medal at the Seconde Exposition Internationale d'Anvers in 1894 for his painting of a wheatfield in
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Pieters, Evert 1856 births 1932 deaths Painters from Amsterdam 19th-century Dutch painters Dutch male painters 20th-century Dutch painters Dutch landscape painters 19th-century Dutch male artists 20th-century Dutch male artists
Evert Pieters (11 December 1856, Amsterdam
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- 17 February 1932, Laren) was a Dutch painter, known primarily for landscapes and interiors.
Biography
He was born to a poor family and was apprenticed to a house painter at an early age. At the age of nineteen, he went to Antwerp, seeking an apprenticeship with a decorative painter to improve his chances of earning a good living. While there, he also took drawing classes in the evening at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts. Eventually, he found a position with the Belgian landscape painter,Theodoor Verstraete
Theodoor Verstraete, also spelled Theodor Verstraete and Théodore Verstraete (5 January 1850 – 8 January 1907) was a Belgian Realism (arts), Realist painter and printmaker who is known for his landscapes depicting life in the countryside as wel ...
.Brief biography@ the De Valk Lexicon. He had his first successful showing at the Exposition Universelle d'Anvers (1885). He remained in Belgium as a freelance painter and won a medal at the Seconde Exposition Internationale d'Anvers in 1894 for his painting of a wheatfield in
Flanders
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. He married shortly thereafter, dividing his time between Paris and Barbizon
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The inhabitants are called ''Barbizonais''.
Art history
The Barbizon school of painters is na ...
; concentrating on landscapes and still-life
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s after the style of the old Dutch Masters
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. That same painting received a gold medal at the Salon
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two years later.
In 1895 he returned to the Netherlands and settled in Blaricum
Blaricum () is a municipality and village in the province of North Holland, the Netherlands. It is part of the region of Gooiland and part of the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area (Metropoolregio Amsterdam). It is known for its many monumental farm bui ...
. He was not as successful there, however, and his request for membership at the Pulchri Studio
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This institute began in 1847 at the home of painter Lambertus Hardenberg. Since 1893 the c ...
was denied. Despite being married, his life took on a Bohemian quality. He began doing interiors with figures, which became popular in the United States.
Shortly after 1900, he spent time in Italy to recover from surgery. After that, his work became more Impressionistic and often included flowers. In 1905, he moved to Katwijk aan Zee
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and began painting beach scenes. A few years later, he moved to Laren and lived there until his sudden death during a taxi ride home from Baarn
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Personal life
Pieters married Marie Eugenie van den Bossche (1855–1940), daughter of Jules van den Bossche and Badima on 15 October 1895 in Haarlem.Selected paintings
Painter's Home File:Pieters Aan het werk in de moestuin.jpg, Working in the Vegetable Garden File:Evert Pieters - Interior with elegant woman.jpg, Interior with
Elegant Woman
References
Further reading
* W.P.H. de Vries: ''De schilder Evert Pieters en zijn werk'', Frans Buffa & Zonen, 1926. * André Groeneveld, ''Evert Pieters, 1856-1932: zee en zand en zonnige momenten'', Katwijks Museum, 2006External links
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