Pieter Meert

Flemish Baroque painter

Pieter Meert (name variations: Petrus Meert, Peeter Meert, Peeter Meerte, Pieter Meerte, Peeter Merten, Petrus Meerte) (c. 1620 – 1669) was a Flemish Baroque painter known for his portraits and genre paintings.^[1]

He was born in Brussels. The early Flemish biographer Cornelis De Bie reports in his Het Gulden Cabinet published in 1662 that Meert was well known as a portrait painter, who imitated the style of Anthony van Dyck.^[2] According to the Dutch biographer Arnold Houbraken he was a good portrait painter whose works hung in various guild halls in Brussels.^[3]

Peter Capuyns was his pupil.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b Pieter Meert at the Netherlands Institute for Art History (in Dutch)
^ Cornelis de Bie, Het Gulden Cabinet vande Edel Vry Schilder-Const, 1662, pp. 351–352 (in Dutch)
^ Peeter Meert in Arnold Houbraken, Schouburg, Volume 2, page 50 (in Dutch)

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Bryan, Michael (1889). Walter Armstrong; Robert Edmund Graves (eds.). Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical. Vol. II L-Z. London: George Bell and Sons. p. 131.