Pieter Balten

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(Detail) of public play during a village fair.

Pieter Balten, or Pieter Custodis (born ca. 1525 in Antwerp - died 1584 in Antwerp) was a Flemish Renaissance painter.

Biography

According to Karel van Mander he became a member of the Guild of St. Luke in 1559 and was a follower of Pieter Bruegel the Elder.^[1] He was a good poet and rederijker, who collaborated from time to time with Cornelis Ketel.^[1]

According to the RKD he was a genre and landscape painter.^[2] He is also known for prints, though it was his son Dominicus who later married the widow of Bartholomaus Kilian and began a famous engraving workshop in Augsburg, known as the Kilian family of engravers.^[3]

References

Pieter Balten on Artnet

↑ 1.0 1.1 (Dutch) Pieter Balten in Karel van Mander's Schilder-boeck, 1604, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature
↑ Pieter Balten in the RKD
↑ Dominicus Custos in the RKD

External links

Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Drawings and Prints, a full text exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which includes material on Pieter Balten (see index)

Persondata
Name	Balten, Pieter
Alternative names	Pieter Custodis
Short description	Flemish painter
Date of birth	c. 1525
Place of birth	Antwerp
Date of death	1584
Place of death	Antwerp

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