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Pieter de Bloot (1601 – c. 6 November 1658) was a
Bloot, Pieter de
at the Netherlands Institute for Art History. 1601 births 1658 deaths Dutch Golden Age painters Dutch male painters Painters from Rotterdam {{Netherlands-painter-stub
Pieter de Bloot (1601 – c. 6 November 1658) was a Dutch
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painter.
De Bloot, who was born and died in Rotterdam
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, primarily painted landscapes and genre works
Genre art is the pictorial representation in any of various media of scenes or events from everyday life, such as markets, domestic settings, interiors, parties, inn scenes, work, and street scenes. Such representations (also called genre works, ...
, especially of countryside views and peasant subjects. He also periodically painted religious subjects. Between 1624 and 1630 de Bloot was married three times, since his first two wives died only a few months after the wedding. De Bloot died in 1658.
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Bloot, Pieter de
at the Netherlands Institute for Art History. 1601 births 1658 deaths Dutch Golden Age painters Dutch male painters Painters from Rotterdam {{Netherlands-painter-stub