Pieter Withoos
Illustration — Parus major Pieter Withoos (1655 – 23 April 1692), was a Dutch Golden Age painter. Withoos was born in Amersfoort. According to Houbraken he was the second son of Mathias Withoos, brother to the painters Johannes, Frans and Alida Withoos.
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Pieter Withoos
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- Born
- 1655 · Amersfoort.
- Died
- 1692 · Amsterdam.
- Nationality
- Dutch Republic
- Occupation
- botanical illustrator · painter
- Fields
- floral
- Languages
- Dutch
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Illustration — Parus major Pieter Withoos (1655 – 23 April 1692), was a Dutch Golden Age painter. Withoos was born in Amersfoort. According to Houbraken he was the second son of Mathias Withoos, brother to the painters Johannes, Frans and Alida Withoos.
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He painted flowers and all sorts of small insects and animals in watercolours, mostly for albums of garden art collectors. According to the RKD he moved with his family to Hoorn in the rampjaar, 1672. He died in Amsterdam.
The recorded working language is Dutch. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are floral. Places of work recorded in the authority are Hoorn and Utrecht. Work by Pieter Withoos is recorded in the collections of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Städel Museum and J. Paul Getty Museum.
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