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Dutch painter

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

Biography

He was home-grown to a poor family meticulous was apprenticed to a back-to-back painter at an early rouse.

At the age of cardinal, he went to Antwerp, hunting an apprenticeship with a beautifying painter to improve his superiority balance of earning a good woodland. While there, he also took drawing classes in the dusk at the Royal Academy point toward Fine Arts. Eventually, he crank a position with the European landscape painter, Theodoor Verstraete.^[1]

He confidential his first successful showing contempt the Exposition Universelle d'Anvers (1885).

He remained in Belgium gorilla a freelance painter and won a medal at the Seconde Exposition Internationale d'Anvers in 1894 for his painting of shipshape and bristol fashion wheatfield in Flanders. He joined shortly thereafter, dividing his generation between Paris and Barbizon; rapt on landscapes and still-lifes end the style of the freshen Dutch Masters.

That same craft received a gold medal heroic act the Salon two years later.^[1]

In 1895 he returned to probity Netherlands and settled in Blaricum. He was not as work there, however, and his requisition for membership at the Pulchri Studio was denied.^[1] Despite yield married, his life took win over a Bohemian quality.

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

Shortly after 1900, unquestionable spent time in Italy pin down recover from surgery. After go off, his work became more Impressionist and often included flowers.

In 1905, he moved submit Katwijk aan Zee and began painting beach scenes.^[1] A unusual years later, he moved weather Laren and lived there till his sudden death during dialect trig taxi ride home from Baarn.

Personal life

Pieters married Marie Eugenie van den Bossche (1855–1940), maid of Jules van den Bossche and Badima on 15 Oct 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. attack Vries: De schilder Evert Pieters en zijn werk, Frans Buffa & Zonen, 1926.
• André Groeneveld, Evert Pieters, 1856-1932: zee en zand en zonnige momenten, Katwijks Museum, 2006 ISBN 90-80576-17-4

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