Pieter Coopse or Pieter Jansz. Coops (–1673), was a
Dutch Golden Age
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seascape painter and draughtsman from
Hoorn
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in the Northern Netherlands.
According to the RKD (''
Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie
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'', a.k.a. Netherlands Institute for Art History'), he was a pupil of the seascape painter
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flourished
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about the year 1672. His pictures are generally of a small size, well composed, full of subject, and vigorously
painted. There is a picture by him in the Gallery at Munich, which is attributed to Bakhuisen in the catalogue, though the name may be discovered on
it: in England the dealers are more cautious; they remove it. Ploos van Amstel and others have given facsimiles of some of his drawings; but it is only recently that his own countrymen have discovered his merit as a painter in oil.