Pieter Peutemans (1641–1698) 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, ...

painter.

Biography

According to the

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, Peutemans was born in

Goes Goes () is a city and municipality in the southwestern Netherlands on Zuid-Beveland, in the province of Zeeland. The city of Goes has approximately 27,000 residents. History Goes was founded in the 10th century on the edge of a creek: de Korte ...

and, according to Houbraken, he died of the shock to his heart that he experienced during the Rotterdam earthquake of September 18, 1692. He had been in the Rotterdam anatomy building after lunch, to draw some anatomical pieces for his cousin, a member of the Rotterdam 'vroedschap' (council), when he fainted. When he came to, the earthquake caused all of the skeletons in the room to shake and he felt the skulls laughing at him, whereupon he jumped up and ran in terror, covered in ground paint. Though he recovered enough to relate the story, he died soon afterwards.Pieter Peutemans 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 also mentioned some painted cutout signboards he made, and mentioned specifically a cutout of a lifesize Swiss guard officer who stood guard at his home in Rotterdam. According to the RKD he worked at Goes and in The Hague before moving to

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, where he married and became a member of their

Guild of Saint Luke The Guild of Saint Luke was the most common name for a city guild for painters and other artists in early modern Europe, especially in the Low Countries. They were named in honor of the Evangelist Luke, the patron saint of artists, who was ide ...

there. He is known for some

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ken in Goes that were auctioned by that town in 1864.Schutterstukken of Goes
in the Historisch Museum De BevelandenPieter Peutemans
in the

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Peutemans, Pieter 1641 births 1698 deaths Dutch Golden Age painters Dutch male painters Painters from Middelburg People from Goes