Pieter van de Plas

Pieter Van de Plas
Still llife with fish in the Stedelijk Museum het Prinsenhof
Birth name	Peeter
Born	1585/1605 Brussels or Haarlem
Died	1661 (aged 70–71) Brussels
Nationality	Flanders
Field	Painting
Movement	Baroque

Pieter Van de Plas (ca.1590-1661), was a Dutch Golden Age painter.

Biography

According to Houbraken, who copied his comments from Cornelis de Bie, Pieter Van de Plas was a Dutch painter whose works survived the Beeldenstorm because of his extraordinary talent.^[1]

According to the RKD, his works are often confused with a painter P V Plas from Alkmaar.^[2] His works are signed with the monogram "PVP".^[3] Though his birth and death dates are uncertain, he was born no earlier than 1585, according to the RKD, which makes De Bie's comment in reference to the Beeldenstaorm of 1568 very confusing. Perhaps he had a father of the same name who was a painter of religious scenes for churches and cloisters.

References

^ (Dutch) Pieter van de Plas biography in De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature
^ P V Plas in the RKD
^ Pieter van de Plas I in the RKD

Persondata
Name	van de Plas, Peter
Alternative names
Short description	painter
Date of birth	c. 1590
Place of birth	Brussels or Haarlem
Date of death	1661
Place of death	Brussels