Jan de Bisschop - after Pieter Donker after Raphael

Pieter Donker (1635 in

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– 1668 in Gouda), was a Dutch Golden Age painter.

Biography

According to Houbraken he travelled to Antwerp, Frankfurt, and Rome with his cousin Jan Donker.Pieter Donker Biography
in ''De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen'' (1718) by

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, courtesy of the

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He travelled to Frankfurt, where he witnessed the coronation of Leopold, and accompanied Charles III de Créquy to Rome. According to the RKD he was a pupil of

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in 1656–58 in Antwerp.Pieter Donker Biography
in the RKD In 1658, at the time of the coronation of

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he was a portraitist in Frankfurt. His sketches of works by the Italian masters, were later used by

Jan de Bisschop Jan de Bisschop, also known as Johannes Episcopius (1628–1671), was a lawyer, who became a Dutch Golden Age painter and engraver. Biography According to the RKD he learned to draw from Bartholomeus Breenbergh, and he influenced in his turn ...

. In 1664 he travelled from Rome to Naples with

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, Alexander Le Petit,

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and G.Sabé. In 1666 he was back in Gouda, where he later died. His cousin Jan painted the regents of the Gouda corrections facility.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Donker, Pieter 1635 births 1668 deaths Dutch Golden Age painters Dutch male painters People from Gouda, South Holland