Pieter Holsteyn (1614,

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– 1673,

), was a

Dutch Golden Age The Dutch Golden Age ( nl, Gouden Eeuw ) was a period in the history of the Netherlands, roughly spanning the era from 1588 (the birth of the Dutch Republic) to 1672 (the Rampjaar, "Disaster Year"), in which Dutch trade, science, and Dutch art, ...

watercolor painter and engraver.

Biography

According to Houbraken who called him "Holstein", his father

Pieter Holsteyn I Pieter Holsteyn (1585–1662) was a Dutch Golden Age painter, engraver and stained glass worker. Biography Holsteyn was born and died in Haarlem. According to Houbraken who quotes Samuel Ampzing, "Pet. Holstein" was a good glasspainter who ...

was a good glass painter and his brother

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was a good painter.Pieter Holsteyn Biography
in ''De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen'' (1718) by

Arnold Houbraken Arnold Houbraken (28 March 1660 – 14 October 1719) was a Dutch painter and writer from Dordrecht, now remembered mainly as a biographer of Dutch Golden Age painters. Life Houbraken was sent first to learn ''threadtwisting'' (Twyndraat) fr ...

, courtesy of the

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Houbraken quoted

Samuel Ampzing Samuel Ampzing (24 June 1590 – 29 July 1632) was a Dutch minister, poet and purist. Biography Born to the minister Johannes Ampzing in Haarlem, in 1616 Samuel became a minister himself at Rijsoord in Strevelshoek, and in 1619 at the Sint-B ...

who mentioned Holstein together with Johannes Boeckhorst as good glasspainters who painted the scenes of the

damiaatjes The Damiaatjes (English: Little Damiettas) refer to two bells in the St. Bavochurch of Haarlem that ring every night between nine and nine thirty, to signal the closing of the city's gates and commemorate the conquest of the Egyptian city Damiet ...

story in the magistrate's room in the

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. In his biographical sketch of

Rochus van Veen Rochus van Veen (1630–1693) was a Dutch Golden Age painter. Biography According to Houbraken, he followed in the artistic footsteps of his father Otto van Veen, who may have been his uncle. Rochus had two sons who also became painters. All ...

Houbraken mentioned the auction of watercolor paintings in Haarlem in 1706 of insects and birds that were painted in the style of Pieter Holsteyn. According to the RKD he was the son of Pieter I and the brother of Cornelis.Pieter Holsteyn
in the

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He worked in Haarlem, Amsterdam, Munster and Enkhuizen and was the teacher of the painter Josua Breckerveld. He signed his works with the monogram "PH". The painter

Herman Henstenburgh Herman Henstenburgh (1667, in Hoorn – 1726, in Hoorn), was an 18th-century painter from the Northern Netherlands. Biography According to Johan van Gool he was very good at copying prints and copied the watercolours of Pieter Holstein, wh ...

was influenced by his watercolors.

References

External links

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