Pieter Huys
Illustration — Woman Enraged Pieter Huys (c.1519 – c.1584) was a Flemish Renaissance painter. He is known of his early life, and though he was mostly active in Antwerp, his place of birth and death is not certain. He became a master in the Antwerp Guild of St.
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Pieter Huys
Pieter Huys · Wellcome Collection, London · Wellcome Collection · Public Domain Mark
- Born
- 1519 · Antwerp.
- Died
- 1584 · Antwerp.
- Nationality
- Southern Netherlands
- Occupation
- painter · printmaker
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Illustration — Woman Enraged Pieter Huys (c.1519 – c.1584) was a Flemish Renaissance painter. He is known of his early life, and though he was mostly active in Antwerp, his place of birth and death is not certain. He became a master in the Antwerp Guild of St.
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Born at Antwerp in 1519, died in Antwerp in 1584.
Places of work recorded in the authority are Antwerp. Work by Pieter Huys is recorded in the collections of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Museo del Prado, Auckland Art Gallery, Metropolitan Museum of Art and Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium.
![A surgeon extracting the stone of folly. Oil painting by Pieter Huys, ca. 1561., [1561?], by Pieter Huys](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/V0017593/full/800,/0/default.jpg)
A surgeon extracting the stone of folly. Oil painting by Pieter Huys, ca. 1561., [1561?], by Pieter Huys
Pieter Huys · Wellcome Collection, London · Wellcome Collection
Operation for 'pierre de tete', after Hemessen, 16thC., by Pieter Huys
Pieter Huys · Wellcome Collection, London · Wellcome Collection
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