Pieter Meert

Pieter Meert (name variations: Petrus Meert, Peeter Meert, Peeter Meerte, Pieter Meerte, Peeter Merten, Petrus Meerte) (c. 1620 – 1669) was a Flemish Baroque painter known for his portraits and genre paintings.[1]

Portrait of a Man

Portrait of Pieter Meert engraved by Joannes Meyssens

He was born in Brussels. The early Flemish biographer Cornelis De Bie reports in his Het Gulden Cabinet published in 1662 that Meert was well known as a portrait painter, who imitated the style of Anthony van Dyck.[2] According to the Dutch biographer Arnold Houbraken he was a good portrait painter whose works hung in various guild halls in Brussels.[3]

Peter Capuyns was his pupil.[1]

References

1. Pieter Meert at the Netherlands Institute for Art History (in Dutch)
2. Cornelis de Bie, Het Gulden Cabinet vande Edel Vry Schilder-Const, 1662, pp. 351–352 (in Dutch)
3. Peeter Meert in Arnold Houbraken, Schouburg, Volume 2, page 50 (in Dutch)

Sources

• Bryan, Michael (1889). Walter Armstrong & Robert Edmund Graves (ed.). Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical (Volume II L-Z). York St. #4, Covent Garden, London; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized 18 May 2007: George Bell and Sons. p. 131.CS1 maint: location (link)