Discover painter, draftsperson, trader Pieter de Bloot

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: His genre paintings and still lifes are signed in most cases, his landscapes are usually monogrammed (Beck 1991).

Monogram: PDB

Qualifications: painter, draftsperson, trader, tile maker, broker
according to Haverkorn van Rijsewijk 1891, p. 65, he traded extensively in real estate and even became a tile-maker (p. 66)

Nationality/school: North Netherlandish (school)

Born: Rotterdam (city) 1601/1602
c. 1601 : according to himself he was born at the end of 1601 (Haverkorn van Rijsewijk 1891)

Deceased: Rotterdam (city) 1658-11-03/1658-11-09
He died in the week of 3 to 9 November 1658 (Haverkorn van Rijsewijk 1891)

Family relationships this field records any family relationship to one or more other artist(s).: His parents Pieter de Bloot and Anneken Jacobsdr. came from Antwerp to Rotterdam and married there on 31 January 1601. Pieter himself was married three times in Rotterdam: 1) 31 December 1624 to Anneken Frans, 2) 16 November 1625 to Grietgen Huberts and 3) on 25 August 1630 to Maria Goversdr. Vogels. We do not know about children from his first and second marriage, although he had a son Pieter, who reached majority in 1650, as he signed a deed as a witness, and who was therefore born before or in 1625; from his third marriage Pieter had several children (Haverkorn van Rijsewijk 1891)

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Rotterdam (stad) 1616 - 1658
He lived and worked his whole life in Rotterdam. For his Rotterdam addresses and his (considerable) possessions see Haverkorn van Rijsewijk 1891, p. 63-65

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Connections with other artists

Teacher of This field mentions the names of pupils. What is at issue are the pupils who were significantly influenced by a teacher as opposed to every student someone ever had. See also the 'Education' field.: Fonteyn, Adriaen Lucasz.
Hondius, Abraham
Ryckhals, François

Ecartico; possibly teacher of Adriean Lucasz. Fonteyn (Briels 1997)
Follower of: Brouwer, Adriaen
Goyen, Jan van
Teniers, David (I)
Influence on This field specifies the artists influenced by the artist in question, without there being question of an educational setting or servile following.: Asch, Pieter van
Boot, J. (17de eeuw)
Kalf, Willem

Subjects This field specifies the various subject categories or genres that constitute the oeuvre of the artist in question. The contents of this field are generally based more on the documentation available at the RKD than on the literature.: peasant genre, genre, history (genre), landscape (genre), river landscape, still life, winter landscape, farm still life, Christian religious scene, fruit piece
He is mentioned as a still life painter in the register of Dr. Sysmus in the 1670s (Thieme/Becker).

Medium/technique: oil paint

Literature

Literature in RKDLibrary: 2 hits in RKDlibrary as subject

Von Wurzbach 1906-1911 , vol. 1 (1906), p. 118 (as: Pieter de Bloot)
Thieme/Becker 1907-1950 , vol. 4 (1910), p. 138 (as: Bloot, Pieter de)
Witt Checklist 1978 , p. 31
Bol 1982 , 2nd edition
Haak 1984 , p. 408-409
Beck 1972-1991 , vol. 4 (1991), p. 42-49
Schadee 1994 , p. 272 (L. van der Zeeuw, 'Naamlijst van zeventiende-eeuwse Rotterdamse schilders',)
Saur 1992- , vol. 11 (1995), p. 601
Briels 1997 , p. 300
Van der Willigen/Meijer 2003 , p. 40 (as: Pieter de Bloot)

J.H. Scheffer & Fr. D.O. Obreen., Rotterdamsche historiebladen (3 vols.), Rotterdam 1871-1880, vol. 3, p. 568-571
A. Bredius, ‘Het schilderregister van Jan Sysmus, Stads-Doctor van Amsterdam’, Oud Holland 8 (1890), p. 307
P. Haverkorn van Rijsewijk, 'Pieter de Bloot', Oud-Holland 9 (1891), p. 62-68
L.M. .van der Hoeven, E.W. Roscam Abbing, 'Het geslacht Vogel(s) en de vicarie op het Sint Jorisaltaar in de kerk van Schoonhoven', Ons Voorgeslacht. Maandblad van de Hollandse Vereniging voor Genealogie 68 (2013), p. 361-374, 368
W.W. Robinson, 'The Abrams Album: An Album Amicorum of Dutch Drawings from the Seventeenth Century', Master Drawings 53 (2015), p. 3-58

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Creation date: 1991-11-21; Last modified date: 2023-02-09

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