Pieter van der Werff

Pieter van der Werff
Granida and Daifilo, 1711
Born	1665 Kralingen, Dutch Republic (modern-day Netherlands)
Died	1722 (aged 56–57) Rotterdam, Dutch Republic (modern-day Netherlands)
Nationality	Dutch
Known for	Painting
Movement	Baroque

Pieter van der Werff (1665 – September 26, 1722) was a Dutch Golden Age painter. He assisted his older brother, Adriaen van der Werff.

Life

He learned to paint from his brother Adriaen and according to the RKD, he spent most of his life working in Rotterdam, where he painted the rich and famous.^[1]

Works

• Portrait of Adriaen Paets (1690-1720), two portraits
• Portrait of Adriaen Besemer (1690-1722)
• Portrait of Cornelis de Koningh (1690-1722)
• Portrait of Paulus Verschuur (1690-1722)
• Portrait of Gerard van Bergen (1695-1722)
• Portrait of Cornelis van den Bergh (1695-1722)
• Portrait of Johan van der Bergh (1695-1722)
• Portrait of Joost van Cuolster (1695-1722)
• Portrait of Cornelis Jansz Hartigsvelt (1695-1722)
• Portrait of Willem Hartigsvelt
• Portrait of Johan Kievelt (1695-1722)
• Portrait of Ewoud Pietersz (1695-1722)
• Portrait of Johan de Reus (1695-1722)
• Portrait of Dominicus Rosmale (1695-1722),
• Portrait of Pieter Sonmans (1695-1722)
• Portrait of Johan van der Veeken (1695-1722)
• Portrait of Johan de Vries (1695-1722)
• Portrait of Philip William August, Count Palatine of Neuburg (1690s)
• Portrait of Jacob Dane (1700)
• Portrait of a Cornelis Matelief de Jonge (1700)
• Granida and Daifilo (1711)
• Portrait of a Woman, presumably Elisabeth Hollaer, wife of Theodorus Rijswijk (1710s)
• Lot and his Daughters
• Portrait of Hendrik Nobel

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References

External links

• Pieter van der Werff in the Rijksmuseum