Pieter van de Plas

Pieter Van de Plas

Still life with fish in the Stedelijk Museum het Prinsenhof
Born Peeter
1585/1605
Brussels or Haarlem
Died 1661 (aged 70–71)
Brussels
Nationality Flanders
Known for 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

  1. ↑ (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
  2. ↑ P V Plas in the RKD
  3. ↑ Pieter van de Plas I in the RKD