Pieter Christoffel Wonder

The recorded working language is Dutch. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait. Works named in the authority record are Father Time and Self-portrait of Pieter Christoffel Wonder (1780-1852). Work by Pieter Christoffel Wonder is recorded in the collections of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Art Institute of Chicago, Museum Arnhem, Amsterdam Museum and Centraal Museum.

Wonder was born in Utrecht. He was largely self-taught, by making copies of the Old Masters, although between 1802 and 1804 he did attend classes at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. In 1807 he established the "Genootschap Kunstliefde" (Love of Art Society) in Utrecht together with other artists including Jan Kobell, and served as director. From 1823 to 1831, he worked in England, where he became well known as a portrait painter, but also painted some interior scenes and copies of works by Raphael. Wonder died in 1852 in Amsterdam.

Pieter Christoffel Wonder is recorded as painter, draftsperson and printmaker.