Pieter Post
Appearance
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Pieter Jansz Post (1 May 1608 – buried 8 May 1669) was a
printmaker
.
Biography
Post was baptised in
Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange, while he was working on plans for the Mauritshuis.[3]
According to the RKD he became a member of the
Paleis Noordeinde in The Hague.[4] From 1645 he was the architect for Frederik Hendrik for Huis ten Bosch, where he worked together with Jacob van Campen.[4] He died in The Hague
, aged 61.
His son Maurits became an architect, and his son Johan Post became a painter,[4] and his daughter married the anatomist and collector Frederik Ruysch. His granddaughter Rachel Ruysch became a famous flower painter.
Architectural work
- 1642 Huis Dedel, The Hague
- 1643 Huis Prinsessegracht 4 (the Hague)
- 1645-1650 Huis ten Bosch (the Hague)
- 1645-1648 Gemeenlandshuis Zwanenburg, Halfweg
- 1649-1653 Huis De Onbeschaamde, Dordrecht
- 1652-1657 Gebouw van de Staten van Holland, (the Hague)
- 1655 Johan de Witt Huis, (the Hague)
- 1657-1658 De Waag, Leiden
- 1659-1685 Stadhuis, Maastricht
- 1659-1662 Kruithuis, Delft
- 1660 Hofje van Nieuwkoop (Den Haag),
- 1661-1662 Torendeel van Lambertuskerk in Buren
- 1662-1665 Kasteel Heeze, Heeze
- 1662-1680 Hervormde Kerk, Bennebroek
- 1663 Kerk van Stompetoren
- 1668- Kaaswaag, Gouda
Gallery
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Huis ten Bosch (the Hague), built 1645-1650
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Mauritshuis (The Hague)
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De Waag Leiden
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Kaaswaag Gouda
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Dedel House (Huis Dedel) at Prinsegracht 15 in The Hague
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Gemeenlandshuis Zwanenburg, former seat of the Hoogheemraadschap van Rijnland waterboard, in Halfweg
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Hofje van Nieuwkoop (Den Haag)
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Dutch Reformed church of Bennebroek, which was finished posthumously in 1680.
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One of the "towers" of the "Kruithuis" in Delft
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Maastricht city hall, considered Post's most accomplished work. After a drawing by Pieter Post
References
- ^ "The Getty: Pieter Post". Archived from the original on December 13, 2006. Retrieved October 24, 2006.
- ^ "Post, Pieter — Encyclopædia Britannica". Retrieved October 24, 2006.
- Digital library for Dutch literature
- ^ RKD
External links
Media related to Pieter Post at Wikimedia Commons
- Pieter Post on Artnet