Petrus Kiers

Training under Douwe de Hoop is recorded. Maria Vos is recorded as having studied under Petrus Kiers. The recorded working language is Dutch. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait. Works named in the authority record are Still life with fruit and silver can and The construction of the Oosterdokssluis, viewed from the north. Work by Petrus Kiers is recorded in the collections of Teylers Museum, Amsterdam Museum, Legermuseum, Drents Museum and Literature Museum.

His first lessons were with the portrait and genre painter Douwe de Hoop. From 1825 to 1826, he attended the Rijksakademie. He would continue to work mostly in Amsterdam but, beginning in the 1860s, also worked in Drenthe, especially in Assen. In 1837, he married the painter Elisabeth Alida Haanen, daughter of the artist Casparis Haanen. Their son, George (1838–1916) became a marine artist and their daughter, Catharina (1839–1930), was a still-life painter. Elisabeth died in 1845 and he remarried in 1850, having two more children. In 1841, he won a silver medal in a competition held by the Felix Meritis Society. He was a member of Arti et Amicitiae and, in 1856, he was appointed a member of the Rijksakademie. He exhibited widely, including shows in Paris and New York. Maria Vos was among his best-known students. He also gained a reputation as a pioneering photographer. For several years he was a partner in a photography studio with Johann Benjamin Snoek (1816–1864). Later, he had his own studio in Assen.