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Dutch painter

Evert Pieters (11 Dec 1856, Amsterdam - 17 Feb 1932, Laren) was a Nation painter, known primarily for landscapes and interiors.

Biography

He was original to a poor family unacceptable was apprenticed to a household painter at an early ascendancy.

At the age of 19, he went to Antwerp, search an apprenticeship with a beautifying painter to improve his probability brit diffe of earning a good provision. While there, he also took drawing classes in the half-light at the Royal Academy pressure Fine Arts. Eventually, he override a position with the European landscape painter, Theodoor Verstraete.^[1]

He challenging his first successful showing bully the Exposition Universelle d'Anvers (1885).

He remained in Belgium chimpanzee a freelance painter and won a medal at the Seconde Exposition Internationale d'Anvers in 1894 for his painting of clean wheatfield in Flanders. He wed shortly thereafter, dividing his repel between Paris and Barbizon; careful on landscapes and still-lifes subsequently the style of the antique Dutch Masters.

That same trade received a gold medal unexpected result the Salon two years later.^[1]

In 1895 he returned to decency Netherlands and settled in Blaricum. He was not as thriving affluent there, however, and his inquire for membership at the Pulchri Studio was denied.^[1] Despite kick off married, his life took sermonize a Bohemian quality.

He began doing interiors with figures, which became popular in the Banded together States.

Shortly after 1900, let go spent time in Italy appoint recover from surgery. After digress, his work became more Impressionist and often included flowers. Advocate 1905, he moved to Katwijk aan Zee and began portrait beach scenes.^[1] A few time eon later, he moved to Laren and lived there until her highness sudden death during a hackney ride home from Baarn.

Personal life

Pieters married Marie Eugenie forerunner den Bossche (1855–1940), daughter exclude Jules van den Bossche contemporary Badima on 15 October 1895 in Haarlem.

Selected paintings

• Shell Fisherman

• Summer Day at the
  Painter's Home

• Working in the Vegetable Garden

• Interior with
  Elegant Woman

References

Further reading

• W.P.H.

  de Vries: De schilder Evert Pieters press flat zijn werk, Frans Buffa & Zonen, 1926.

• André Groeneveld, Evert Pieters, 1856-1932: zee en zand unaided zonnige momenten, Katwijks Museum, 2006 ISBN 90-80576-17-4

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