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Pieter van der Werff

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Nationality
  
Dutch

Name
  
Pieter der

Known for
  
Painting

Movement
  
Baroque

Period
  
Baroque

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Born
  
1665
Kralingen, Dutch Republic (modern-day Netherlands)

Died
  
September 26, 1722, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Artwork
  
Portrait of Johan de Vries, Director of the Rotterdam Chamber of the Dutch East India Company, elected 1667

Pieter van der Werff (1665 – September 26, 1722) was a Dutch Golden Age painter. He assisted his older brother, Adriaen van der Werff.

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Life

He learned to paint from his brother Adriaen and according to the RKD, he spent most of his life working in Rotterdam, where he painted the rich and famous.

Works

  • Portrait of Adriaen Paets (1690-1720), two portraits
  • Portrait of Adriaen Besemer (1690-1722)
  • Portrait of Cornelis de Koningh (1690-1722)
  • Portrait of Paulus Verschuur (1690-1722)
  • Portrait of Gerard van Bergen (1695-1722)
  • Portrait of Cornelis van den Bergh (1695-1722)
  • Portrait of Johan van der Bergh (1695-1722)
  • Portrait of Joost van Cuolster (1695-1722)
  • Portrait of Cornelis Jansz Hartigsvelt (1695-1722)
  • Portrait of Willem Hartigsvelt
  • Portrait of Johan Kievelt (1695-1722)
  • Portrait of Ewoud Pietersz (1695-1722)
  • Portrait of Johan de Reus (1695-1722)
  • Portrait of Dominicus Rosmale (1695-1722),
  • Portrait of Pieter Sonmans (1695-1722)
  • Portrait of Johan van der Veeken (1695-1722)
  • Portrait of Johan de Vries (1695-1722)
  • Portrait of Philip William August, Count Palatine of Neuburg (1690s)
  • Portrait of Jacob Dane (1700)
  • Portrait of a Cornelis Matelief de Jonge (1700)
  • Granida and Daifilo (1711)
  • Portrait of a Woman, presumably Elisabeth Hollaer, wife of Theodorus Rijswijk (1710s)
  • Lot and his Daughters
  • Portrait of Hendrik Nobel

    • References

    Pieter van der Werff Wikipedia
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