Pieter Hermansz Verelst
An Italian street scene with
Bamboccianti playing cards and a quack preparing concoctions.
Pieter Harmensz Verelst (ca 1618, Dordrecht - ca 1678 in Dordrecht or Hulst) was a Dutch Golden Age painter.
Biography
According to the RKD he was a pupil of Gerard Dou and Jacob Gerritsz Cuyp.[1] In 1638, he became a member of the Dordrecht Guild of St. Luke and, in 1656, one of the founders of the Confrerie Pictura.[1] His pupils were Hermanus van Grevenbroeck, Anthony de Haen, Otto Hoynck, Hendrik Mony, Gabriel Siebrick and his sons Herman, Johannes and Simon Pietersz Verelst.[1] He is known mostly for genre paintings of Dutch and Italian village life.[1] He moved in the 1670s to Hulst where he became a brewer.[1]
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