Pieter van Schaeyenborgh (also van Schayenburch, and several other spellings; 1600,
Antwerp1657,
Alkmaar) was a Flemish painter, who worked in the
Dutch Republic
The United Provinces of the Netherlands, also known as the (Seven) United Provinces, officially as the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Dutch: ''Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden''), and commonly referred to in historiography ...
in the latter part of his career. He is known for his
still lifes of fish.
Life
Few details of his life and career are known. He was born to a family of
fishmonger
A fishmonger (historically fishwife for female practitioners) is someone who sells raw fish and seafood. Fishmongers can be wholesalers or retailers and are trained at selecting and purchasing, handling, gutting, boning, filleting, displaying, m ...
s in Antwerp.
He has been identified with the Peter Schaeyenborch who was in 1610 registered with the painters' guild (the
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 ...
) in Antwerp (') as an apprentice of
Daniël Christiaenssen.
In 1635, he was registered with the painters' guild in Alkmaar,
and was active there until his death. In 1656 and 1657, the executors of the estate of Johan van Nordingen de Jonge (i.e. 'the Younger'; 1625/26-1656) paid him 48 and 56
guilder
Guilder is the English translation of the Dutch and German ''gulden'', originally shortened from Middle High German ''guldin pfenninc'' " gold penny". This was the term that became current in the southern and western parts of the Holy Roman Emp ...
s respectively for two paintings commissioned before van Nordingen's death. He also painted one of the two
coats of arms for van Nordingen's grave; he and the other painter,
Laurens van Oosthoorn, received 36 guilders each.
He taught the
marine painter
Jan Theunisz Blanckerhoff (1628-1669).
Work
Van Schaeyenborgh,
Pieter de Putter and
Jan Dirven were among the earliest Netherlandish painters to specialise in still lifes of fish as the main subjects of paintings rather than as incidental features in larger compositions.
He painted still lifes of fish, in
oils
An oil is any nonpolar chemical substance that is composed primarily of hydrocarbons and is hydrophobic (does not mix with water) & lipophilic (mixes with other oils). Oils are usually flammable and surface active. Most oils are unsaturate ...
, said to be very well executed. In 1914, some of his paintings were held on loan by the
Stedelijk Museum Alkmaar.
Until 1974, that museum held several of his paintings on loan from ''armenhuis van Nordingen'';
presumably in Alkmaar, which had been founded using a legacy from van Nordingen. As of 2019, the museum displays his ''Visstilleven met gezicht op Egmond'' ('Still life of fish with view of
Egmond') in its permanent collection.
In 2019, a group of van Schaeyenborgh's paintings was exhibited at the Stedelijk Museum Alkmaar. The catalogue praised his depictions of fish which look as if they have just been caught, with beautiful scales and water droplets you can almost touch.
Gallery
File:Pieter van Schaeyenborg - Still life of fish and shellfish.jpg, ''Still life of fish and shellfish''
File:Pieter van Schaeyenborg - Large still life with fish.jpg, ''Large still life with fish''
File:Pieter van Schaeyenborg - Still life of fish on a wooden table.jpg, ''Still life of fish on a wooden table''; probably 1650s)
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1600 births
Date of birth unknown
1657 deaths
Date of death unknown
Artists from Antwerp
People from Alkmaar
Flemish still life painters
Flemish Baroque painters
17th-century Dutch painters
Dutch still life painters
Emigrants from the Holy Roman Empire to the Dutch Republic