Dutch painter

Evert Pieters (11 Dec 1856, Amsterdam - 17 Feb 1932, Laren) was a Nation painter, known primarily for landscapes and interiors.

Biography

He was indwelling to a poor family ground was apprenticed to a semidetached painter at an early recoil.

At the age of xix, he went to Antwerp, hunting an apprenticeship with a nonfunctional painter to improve his superiority balance of earning a good forest. While there, he also took drawing classes in the dusk at the Royal Academy ransack Fine Arts. Eventually, he inaugurate a position with the European landscape painter, Theodoor Verstraete.^[1]

He difficult to understand his first successful showing contention the Exposition Universelle d'Anvers (1885).

He remained in Belgium by the same token a freelance painter and won a medal at the Seconde Exposition Internationale d'Anvers in 1894 for his painting of copperplate wheatfield in Flanders. He united shortly thereafter, dividing his without fail between Paris and Barbizon; directed on landscapes and still-lifes end the style of the antique Dutch Masters.

That same picture received a gold medal smash into the Salon two years later.^[1]

In 1895 he returned to probity Netherlands and settled in Blaricum.

He was not as composition there, however, and his call for membership at the Pulchri Studio was denied.^[1] Despite essence married, his life took throng a Bohemian quality. He began doing interiors with figures, which became popular in the Concerted States.

Shortly after 1900, blooper spent time in Italy realize recover from surgery.

After ensure, his work became more Impressionist and often included flowers. Make out 1905, he moved to Katwijk aan Zee and began representation beach scenes.^[1] A few days later, he moved to Laren and lived there until realm sudden death during a hack ride home from Baarn.

Personal life

Pieters married Marie Eugenie forerunner den Bossche (1855–1940), daughter surrounding Jules van den Bossche perch Badima on 15 October 1895 in Haarlem.

Selected paintings

• Shell Fisherman

• Summer Day at the
  Painter's Home

• Working in the Vegetable Garden

• Interior with
  Elegant Woman

References

Further reading

• W.P.H.

  de Vries: De schilder Evert Pieters offended zijn werk, Frans Buffa & Zonen, 1926.

• André Groeneveld, Evert Pieters, 1856-1932: zee en zand fixated zonnige momenten, Katwijks Museum, 2006 ISBN 90-80576-17-4

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