Pieter Isaacsz
Pieter Isaacsz (ca 1569,
Biography
Pieter was the son of Helena Backer (also known as Heyltje Roelofs) and Isaac Pietersz, a merchant from
In 1593, he married Susanna Crayborn from Antwerp; the couple had several daughters and one son Isaack, whose baptism was witnessed by
From 1604 Pieter lived at Sint Antoniesbreestraat, opposite Zuiderkerk in a house called "Kronenborg".[9][10] His adventurous son, a painter and art dealer was mentioned in the will in June 1625.[11] Three months later he died during the Great Northern War plague outbreak.[12] He was buried in St. Olaf's Church, Helsingør.
Works
Pieter owned a copy of a
Legacy
He is remembered as one of the first artists who placed the model freely in a landscape. His pupils was Hendrick Avercamp and Huijgh Pietersz. Voskuijl. His most popular piece was an oil on copper painting with a procession of angry women in Rome in front of Marcus Aurelius on hearing that the Roman Senate had decided in favor of polygamy for men.[3] The story came from Macrobius. Van Mander went on to describe several portraits by him which he particularly admired, including a half-length portrait of Sara Schuyrmans playing a cittern.[5]
Pieter Isaacsz was the subject of an exhibition at
Public collections
- Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
- Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel
- Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen
- Lower Saxony State Museum, Hanover
- Frederiksborg Palace, Hillerød
- Houston, Texas
References
- ^ a b c "Favoriete schilder van Deense koning was Zweedse spion". 12 September 2022.
- ^ S.P. Haak, Pontanus, Johannes Isacius of Johan Isaakszoon in Nieuw Nederlandsch biografisch woordenboek, Vol 1 (1911) (in Dutch)
- ^ Digital library for Dutch literature
- ^ "Isaac Pietersz. Isaacsz".
- ^ a b Pieter Isaacsz (1569-1625): een Nederlandse schilder, kunsthandelaar by Juliette Roding, Marja Stompé
- Digital library for Dutch literature
- ^ Dudok van Heel 2007, p. 247
- ^ "Denemarken eert vergeten Nederlands-Deense schilder". Universiteit Leiden. Retrieved 28 September 2022.
- ^ S.A.C. Dudok van Heel, The Birth of an Artists' Quarter - Pieter Isaacsz's Amsterdam Years, in Badeloch Noldus and Juliette Roding (eds.), Pieter Isaacsz (1568-1625), Turnhout, Belgium, 2007, pp 74-91
- ISSN 0030-672X.
- ^ "Inventarissen: 441 Band no.17. 1627 Maart 9-1627 December 29;met alphab. index., 1627". archief.amsterdam. Retrieved 28 September 2022.
"Inventarissen: 575 no.5. 1626 Augustus 7-1627 December 23;met alphab. index., 1626 - 1627". archief.amsterdam. Retrieved 28 September 2022. - ^ "Pieter Isaacsz: hofmaler og spion". www.codart.nl. Archived from the original on 2015-09-12. Retrieved 2010-12-23.
- ^ "Explore Pieter Isaacsz". rkd.nl.
- ^ Career choices of migrant artists between Amsterdam and Antwerp The Van Nieulandt brothers Eric Jan Sluijter
- ^ "2.3 The Position of Pieter Isaacsz". Gerson Digital. Netherlands Institute for Art History. Retrieved 28 September 2022.
- ^ "Ontdek schilder, prentkunstenaar, tekenaar Pieter Isaacsz".
- ^ Heiberg, S. (red.) Johannsen, H., Noldus, B. (ed.), & Roding, J. (red.) (2007). Christian IV's private oratory in the Frederiksborg Castle chapel: reconstruction and interpretation. In Pieter Isaacsz (1569-1625): court painter, art trader and spy (p. 169-174). Brepols.
External links
Media related to Pieter Isaacsz at Wikimedia Commons