Pieter van Lint or Peter van Lint (1609–1690) was a Flemish

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, draughtsman and designer of tapestries. He excelled in

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s, genre scenes and portraits in the

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style with some Classisizing influence. He worked in

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and Italy.Peter van Lint
at the Netherlands Institute for Art History

Life

He was born in Antwerp where he trained under Artus Wolffort. During his training he frequently visited Antwerp's churches to copy the paintings of his contemporaries such as Peter Paul Rubens as well as those of earlier generations such as

Marten de Vos Maerten de Vos, Maerten de Vos the Elder or Marten de Vos (1532 – 4 December 1603)Maerten de Vos
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and the

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brothers.Hans Vlieghe. "Lint, Pieter van." Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press. Web. 14 August 2014 Van Lint become a master in the Guild of Saint Luke in 1633. In that same year he traveled to Rome where he remained until 1640. In Rome he worked for

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, Bishop of Ostia, who employed him to decorate the local cathedral. Van Lint also frescoed the Cybo family chapel in the Santa Maria del Popolo with the Legend of the True Cross in 1636–40. In addition to religious commissions, the artist painted numerous small genre scenes in the style of the Bamboccianti. He spent time in Paris from 1640 to 1641 where he possibly was in contact with Poussin. The year after his return to Antwerp in 1642 he married Elisabeth Willemyns. The couple had seven children. When he became widowed in 1679, the artist remarried the following year to Anna Moeren (Moren or Morren).Edgar Peters Bowron,

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, ''Art in Rome in the Eighteenth Century'', Philadelphia Museum of Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2000, pp. 236–237 His pupils included Caerel de las Cuevas, Jan-Baptista Ferrari and Godfried Maes. His son Hendrik Frans van Lint from his second marriage was a celebrated landscape painter in Rome. He died in Antwerp.

Work

Pieter van Lint - An Allegory with Labour being rewarded by Abundance and Peace, witnessed by Minerva and Time

His earliest works follow his master Wolffort's style, which was itself indebted to the academic manner of Otto van Veen. During his stay in Rome he made many studies after the antique and developed an interest in classicism, which remained a constant characteristic of his style. At the same time, he tried his hand at the Bamboccianti genre style of painting. Many of his later works were religious paintings, such as the '' Marriage of the Virgin'' (1640) in

Antwerp Cathedral The Cathedral of Our Lady ( nl, Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekathedraal) is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Antwerp, Belgium. Today's see of the Diocese of Antwerp started in 1352 and, although the first stage of construction was ended in 1521, has never been ...

, which were in the classicizing style of Wollfort and his Roman examples. Besides larger paintings, he made small-scale devotional paintings, which found a large market in Spain and the Spanish colonies in

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. He often completed assignments for leading Antwerp art dealers such as Matthijs Musson and Guillam Forchondt. Pieter van Lint (Attr

In response to the contemporary demand for copies of Rubens' oil sketches, van Lint produced a large number of copies of Rubens' work. Pieter van Lint was together with

Abraham Willemsens Abraham Willemsens or Abraham Willemsen (c. 1605-1610 - 1672), was a Flemish painter of history and genre paintings.Ab ...

and

Willem van Herp Willem van Herp (I) or Willem van Herp the Elder (variations on first name: 'Guilliam', 'Gilliam' and 'Guillaume') (c. 1614 in Antwerp – 1677) was a Flemish Baroque painter specializing in religious paintings and small cabinet paintings of "low ...

one of the principal producers of such copies for the Antwerp art dealers. Many of these were executed on copper, a material for painting that was highly prized both for durability and its glossy finish in Spain.Phoenix Art Museum, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, and Mauritshuis (Hague, Netherlands), ''Copper As Canvas Two Centuries of Masterpiece Paintings on Copper, 1575-1775'', New York: Oxford University Press, 1999; pp. 206–208. Four oils on copper works by van Lint are in the collection of the Prado Museum in Madrid, including a copy after Rubens. An album with travel sketches, including two sketches which are signed 'P.V.L.' in the collection of the

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in Würzburg, which were formerly attributed to Pieter van Laer (the central figure of the Bamboccianti) has now been re-attributed to Pieter van Lint. The album contains sketches, which the artist made of scenes, including of his fellow travelers, during his travels in Italy around 1636. The drawings give a lively idea of the conditions and the manner in which travelers undertook their travels at the time. Pieter van Lint was also active as a designer of tapestries. Correspondence between the Antwerp trader Hendrik Lenaerts and the Brussels weavers Jan van Leefdael and Gerard van der Strecken dated 1660 shows that van Lint had designed 8 cartoons for a ''Story of Domitian''. A tapestry series dated 1639 on the ''Story of the Virgin Mary'' still preserved in the Pottery convent in Bruges is believed to have been made after models by Pieter van Lint.Thomas P. Campbell, Pascal-François Bertrand, Jeri Bapasola, 'Tapestry in the Baroque: Threads of Splendor', Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1 Jan 2007, pp. 213–214 Pieter van Lint - Sleeping travellers

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Lint, Pieter van 1609 births 1690 deaths Flemish Baroque painters Flemish history painters Flemish portrait painters Artists from Antwerp Painters from Antwerp