Pieter van der Borcht
Also recorded as Peter van der Borcht · Pieter van der Borcht (I) · Peter van der Borght · Pieter Verborcht
Pieter van der Borcht
Pieter van der Borcht · Wellcome Collection, London · Wellcome Collection · Public Domain Mark
- Born
- 1530 · Mechelen.
- Died
- 1611 · Antwerp.
- Nationality
- Spanish Netherlands
- Occupation
- painter · etcher · draftsperson · artist · illustrator · printmaker
- Fields
- botany
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Biography
The field of work recorded is botany. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are landscape and allegory. Places of work recorded in the authority are Mechelen and Antwerp. Work by Pieter van der Borcht is recorded in the collections of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp, Museum of Fine Arts Ghent (MSK), Groeningemuseum and M Leuven.
A monkey barber's shop. Engraving after P. van der Borcht., by Pieter van der Borcht
Pieter van der Borcht · Wellcome Collection, London · Wellcome Collection
Christ appears to Saint John the Evangelist with eyes aflame and a sword in his mouth. Etching by P. van der Borcht., by Pieter van der Borcht
Pieter van der Borcht · Wellcome Collection, London · Wellcome Collection
Life and career
Dated record
Life and career
The full dated record · 2 entries
1530
Pieter van der Borcht born.
1611
Pieter van der Borcht died.
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Mechelen.
Birth place
Antwerp.
Death place
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Notes from the source article
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- 1.Alternative spellings of last name: van der Borght and Verborcht, sometimes also: Pieter van der Borcht (II) or Pieter van der Borcht (IV), and alternative first name spellings: Peeter and Pierre
- 2.Thomas Gloning, Lydia Kaiser und Ans Schapendonk, Rembert Dodoens und sein Cruyde Boeck (1563) in: 'Rembert Dodoens, Cruyde Boeck, Antwerpen 1563', UB Marburg, Marburg, 2005, p. 1-73
- 3.Pieter van der Borcht at Mechelen MAPT
- 4.Pieter van der Borcht at the University of Victoria
- 5.J. G. Van Gelder, Van blompot and blomglas, in: Elsevier's XCI No. 2, p. 73-82
- 6.Jetty E. van der Sterre. "Borcht, Pieter van der." Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press. Web. 17 Sep. 2014
- 7.Pieter van der Borcht (I) at the Netherlands Institute for Art History
- 8.Andrew Pettegree, Malcolm Walsby, Netherlandish Books (NB) (2 Vols): Books Published in the Low Countries and Dutch Books Printed Abroad Before 1601, BRILL, 2010, p. 1341
- 9.Ramón-Laca Menéndez de Luarca, Luis, Las plantas vasculares de la Península Ibérica en la obra de Clusio: envíos de semillas de Sevilla a Leiden
- 10.Libri picturati A. 16-31 at the Jagiellonian Library of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków
- 11.Karel A. E. Enenkel, Paulus Johannes Smith, Early Modern Zoology: The Construction of Animals in Science, Literature and the Visual Arts, Volume 7, Issue 1, BRILL, 2007, p. 264
- 12.Larry Silver, ‘‘Peasant Scenes and Landscapes: The Rise of Pictorial Genres in the Antwerp Art Market’’, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012, p. 198
- 13.'Singerie' in Larousse online
- 14.Bert Schepers, Monkey Madness in Seventeenth-Century Antwerp, in: The Rubenianum Quarterly, 2012 2, p. 5
- 15.National Inventory of Continental European Paintings Brief Bio Peter van der Borcht
Bibliography printed in the source article · 3
- Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Hollstein: Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings, and woodcuts. Band 3. Menno Hertzberger, Amsterdam [1950], S. 99–106.
- Ulrike Hanschke: Pieter van der Borcht. In: Artists of the lexicon. The visual artists of all times and peoples. Volume 12 Saur, Munich and Leipzig 1996, ; S. 677th.
- Jetty E. van der Sterre: Borcht, Pieter van der. In: The dictionary of art. Hrsg. von Jane Turner. Band 4. Macmillan, London 1996, ; S. 384.
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