Pieter Nason (bapt. 16 February 1612,

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- 1688/90,

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) was a Dutch painter. He became a member of the Guild of Painters of The Hague in 1639, and in 1656 was one of the forty seven members who established the

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. From a MS. by Pieter Terwesten, it appears not improbable that Nason was a pupil of Jan van Ravensteyn; and it is believed that his name has been effaced from pictures since attributed to Mierevelt, Moreelse, and above all to Ravensteyn. It is certain that he painted the portrait of Prince Mauritz, Governor of the , engraved by Houbraken, and those of Charles the Second of England, engraved by C. Van Dalen and Sandrart, and of the Grand Elector. At

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there is a full-length portrait, dated 1667, of the latter, by Nason; also a

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, representing gold, silver, and glass vessels, likewise a portrait by him signed and dated 1670. There are others at

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and at

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. The date of his death is not known, but his life was long. Redgrave gives the initial of his Christian name wrongly as R.

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References

Nason, Pieter
at the Netherlands Institute for Art History. Attribution: *

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1612 births 1680s deaths Painters from Amsterdam Dutch Golden Age painters Dutch male painters Painters from The Hague {{Netherlands-painter-stub