Pieter Gaal (19 July 1769 in
Middelburg Middelburg may refer to:
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* Middelburg, Zeeland, the capital city of the province of Zeeland, southwestern Netherlands
** Roman Catholic Diocese of Middelburg, a former Catholic diocese with its see in the Zeeland ...
– 13/18 January 1819 in Middelburg)
[Pieter Gaal]
in the RKD
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was a Dutch painter, the son of
Thomas Gaal.
Gaal came from a family of painters from the
Zeeland
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, anthem = "Zeeuws volkslied"("Zeelandic Anthem")
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area of the
Netherlands
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, his earliest
ancestor was a knight called Florens Ghale van Hoesbroec, though his father was born in what is now
Belgium
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. His son
Jacobus Cornelis Gaal
Jacobus Cornelis Gaal (September 5, 1796 in Oost-Souburg – December 20, 1866 in Kampen) was a Dutch painter and etcher.
Gaal was born in East Souburg, the son of Pieter Gaal (1769–1819) and Richardina Jacob van Eps (1765–1813). He was ...
was also a painter, painting portraits such as "Junges Madchen in Weissen Kleid Beim Einkleid" a portrait of a young woman being dressed by a maidservant.
Gaal's main focus were "landscapes with cattle and figures furnished, a hobby portraits, living and dead
game and genre pieces". He spent time in
London
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(1789–1791), studied in
Paris
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(at the
Académie des Beaux-Arts de l'Institut de France in 1791), and traveled to paint in
Italy
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,
Switzerland and
Germany
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.
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1769 births
1819 deaths
19th-century Dutch painters
Dutch male painters
Painters from Middelburg
19th-century Dutch male artists
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