Pieter de Valck

Portrait of Pieter de Valk lower right in Houbraken's Schouburg.

Pieter Jacobsz. de Valck (1584–1625) was a Dutch Golden Age painter.

Biography

De Valck was born and died in Leeuwarden. According to Houbraken, he was the son of a silversmith who learned to paint from Abraham Bloemaert (according to Joh. Hilarides van Bolswerd).[1] He travelled to Italy and on his return became a respected court painter in Leeuwarden and had two sons who he taught to paint and who also travelled to Italy.[1] They were taken captive in Genoa and sold as slaves on the Barbary coast, never to return.[1] He himself continued to paint for the Leeuwarden court and was known for portraits, landscapes, and historical allegories.[1] His selfportrait was in the hands of his daughter's daughter's daughter Antje Ieppes of Sneek.[1] She made a copy and Houbraken engraved it.[1]

According to the RKD he was a portrait painter who worked in Italy.[2]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 (Dutch) Pieter Jacobsz. de Valck Biography in De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature
  2. ↑ Pieter Jacobsz. de Valck in the RKD