Pieter Pietersz Barbiers

Portrait of Pieter Pietersz Barbiers by Jean Augustin Daiwaille

Pieter Pietersz Barbiers (also Pieter Barbiers Pzn., or Pieter Barbiers II, bapt. October 26, 1749, Amsterdam - October 26, 1842, Amsterdam) was a 19th-century painter from the Dutch Republic and later the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

Biography

Pastoral landscape with figures, 1819, collection Teylers Museum

According to the RKD he was the son of Pieter Barbiers (1717-1780) and the brother of Bartholomeus Barbiers. He became a member of the Amsterdam Guild of St. Luke in 1786, but the group dissolved in 1796 when the guilds were abolished during the French occupation. He became a member of the Royal Academy of Amsterdam in 1822. His pupils were his nephew Bartholomeus Barbiers the younger, and the following students at the academy: Carel Lodewijk Hansen, Jan Hulswit (painter), Johannes Jelgerhuis, Daniël Kerkhoff, Johannes Hendrik Knoop, Thomas van Leent, Jacobus Pelgrom, Petrus Antonius Ravelli, Abraham Johannes Ruytenschildt, Johan Christiaan Willem Safft, Barend Hendrik Thier, Pier Johannes de Visser, and Henricus Franciscus Wiertz. He left fine landscapes, often representing the environs of Geldern and Haarlem.

References

• Rose, Hugh James (1857). "Barbiers, Peter". A New General Biographical Dictionary. Vol. 3 BAH–BEE. London: B. Fellowes et al. p. 152.
• Pieter Barbiers on Artnet