Pieter van Lint or Peter van Lint (1609–1690) was a

Flemish Flemish (''Vlaams'') is a Low Franconian dialect cluster of the Dutch language. It is sometimes referred to as Flemish Dutch (), Belgian Dutch ( ), or Southern Dutch (). Flemish is native to Flanders, a historical region in northern Belgium; ...

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, draughtsman and designer of tapestries. He excelled in

history painting History painting is a genre in painting defined by its subject matter rather than any artistic style or specific period. History paintings depict a moment in a narrative story, most often (but not exclusively) Greek and Roman mythology and Bible ...

genre scenes Genre art is the pictorial representation in any of various media of scenes or events from everyday life, such as markets, domestic settings, interiors, parties, inn scenes, work, and street scenes. Such representations (also called genre works, ...

and portraits in the

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style with some Classisizing influence. He worked in

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and

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.Peter van Lint
at the

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Life

He was born in Antwerp where he trained under

Artus Wolffort Artus Wolffort, Artus Wolffaert or Artus Wolffaerts (1581–1641) was a Flemish painter known mainly for his history paintings depicting religious and mythological scenes.Peter Paul Rubens Sir Peter Paul Rubens (; ; 28 June 1577 – 30 May 1640) was a Flemish artist and diplomat from the Duchy of Brabant in the Southern Netherlands (modern-day Belgium). He is considered the most influential artist of the Flemish Baroque traditio ...

as well as those of earlier generations such as

Marten de Vos Maerten de Vos, Maerten de Vos the Elder or Marten de Vos (1532 – 4 December 1603)Maerten de Vos
at the

and the

Francken The Francken family was a family of artists the members of which were mainly active in Antwerp in the 16th and 17th centuries. Many of the members over three generations had the same first names Frans, Hieronymus and Ambrosius. While this may at ...

brothers.Hans Vlieghe. "Lint, Pieter van." Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press. Web. 14 August 2014 Van Lint become a master in the

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in 1633. In that same year he traveled to

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where he remained until 1640. In Rome he worked for

Cardinal Domenico Ginnasi 200px, Cardinal Domenico Ginnasi Domenico Ginnasi (19 June 1550 in Castel Bolognese – 12 March 1639, in Rome) was a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic church created by Pope Clement VIII. Biography Ginnasi was born the third of seven children to F ...

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, who employed him to decorate the local cathedral. Van Lint also frescoed the Cybo family chapel in the

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with the

Legend of the True Cross ''The History of the True Cross'' or ''The Legend of the True Cross'' is a sequence of frescoes painted by Piero della Francesca in the Basilica of San Francesco in Arezzo. It is his largest work, and generally considered one of his finest, a ...

in 1636–40. In addition to religious commissions, the artist painted numerous small genre scenes in the style of the

Bamboccianti The ''Bamboccianti'' were genre painters active in Rome from about 1625 until the end of the seventeenth century. Most were Dutch and Flemish artists who brought existing traditions of depicting peasant subjects from sixteenth-century Netherland ...

. He spent time in Paris from 1640 to 1641 where he possibly was in contact with

Poussin Nicolas Poussin (, , ; June 1594 – 19 November 1665) was the leading painter of the classical French Baroque style, although he spent most of his working life in Rome. Most of his works were on religious and mythological subjects painted for a ...

. The year after his return to Antwerp in 1642 he married Elisabeth Willemyns. The couple had seven children. When he became widowed in 1679, the artist remarried the following year to Anna Moeren (Moren or Morren).Edgar Peters Bowron,

Joseph J. Rishel Joseph J. Rishel (May 15, 1940 – November 5, 2020) was a curator at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and a specialist in the art of Paul Cézanne. He retired in May 2016 and was a curator emeritus of European Painting. He was married to Anne d'Har ...

, ''Art in Rome in the Eighteenth Century'', Philadelphia Museum of Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2000, pp. 236–237 His pupils included Caerel de las Cuevas, Jan-Baptista Ferrari and

Godfried Maes Godfried Maes (baptised on 15 August 1649 Antwerp – 30 May 1700, Antwerp) was a Flemish painter, draughtsman and designer of tapestries. He was active as a painter of altarpieces and allegorical scenes. He was a prolific draughtsman who ma ...

. His son

Hendrik Frans van Lint Hendrik Frans van Lint (1684 – 24 September 1763) was a Flemish landscape and ''vedute'' painter who was part of the group of Flemish and Dutch painters active in Rome. He was one of the leading landscape painters in Rome in the first half ...

from his second marriage was a celebrated landscape painter in Rome. He died in Antwerp.

Work

Pieter van Lint - An Allegory with Labour being rewarded by Abundance and Peace, witnessed by Minerva and Time

His earliest works follow his master Wolffort's style, which was itself indebted to the academic manner of

Otto van Veen Otto van Veen, also known by his Latinized name Otto Venius or Octavius Vaenius (1556 – 6 May 1629), was a painter, draughtsman, and humanist active primarily in Antwerp and Brussels in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. He is known for r ...

. During his stay in Rome he made many studies after the antique and developed an interest in

classicism Classicism, in the arts, refers generally to a high regard for a classical period, classical antiquity in the Western tradition, as setting standards for taste which the classicists seek to emulate. In its purest form, classicism is an aestheti ...

, which remained a constant characteristic of his style. At the same time, he tried his hand at the Bamboccianti genre style of painting. Many of his later works were religious paintings, such as the ''

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'' (1640) in

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, which were in the classicizing style of Wollfort and his Roman examples. Besides larger paintings, he made small-scale devotional paintings, which found a large market in

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and the Spanish colonies in

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. He often completed assignments for leading Antwerp art dealers such as

Matthijs Musson Matthijs Musson (1593 in Antwerp – 3 November 1678) was a painter and art dealer based in Antwerp, who played an important role in popularizing artists of the 17th-century Antwerp school by marketing them throughout Europe.J. de Maere, Jennifer ...

and

Guillam Forchondt Willem Forchondt, or Guillam Forchondt the Elder (1608–1678) was a Flemish painter, cabinet maker and art dealer. He operated a successful painting workshop and a profitable are dealership which extended throughout Europe through the satellite ...

In response to the contemporary demand for copies of Rubens' oil sketches, van Lint produced a large number of copies of Rubens' work. Pieter van Lint was together with

Abraham Willemsens Abraham Willemsens or Abraham Willemsen (c. 1605-1610 - 1672), was a Flemish painter of history and genre paintings.Ab ...

and

Willem van Herp Willem van Herp (I) or Willem van Herp the Elder (variations on first name: 'Guilliam', 'Gilliam' and 'Guillaume') (c. 1614 in Antwerp – 1677) was a Flemish Baroque painter specializing in religious paintings and small cabinet paintings of "low ...

one of the principal producers of such copies for the Antwerp art dealers. Many of these were executed on copper, a material for painting that was highly prized both for durability and its glossy finish in Spain.Phoenix Art Museum, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, and Mauritshuis (Hague, Netherlands), ''Copper As Canvas Two Centuries of Masterpiece Paintings on Copper, 1575-1775'', New York: Oxford University Press, 1999; pp. 206–208. Four oils on copper works by van Lint are in the collection of the

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in Madrid, including a copy after Rubens. An album with travel sketches, including two sketches which are signed 'P.V.L.' in the collection of the

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, which were formerly attributed to

Pieter van Laer Pieter Bodding van Laer (christened 14 December 1599, Haarlem – 1641 or later) was a Dutch painter and printmaker. He was active in Rome for over a decade and was known for genre scenes, animal paintings and landscapes placed in the environs ...

(the central figure of the Bamboccianti) has now been re-attributed to Pieter van Lint. The album contains sketches, which the artist made of scenes, including of his fellow travelers, during his travels in Italy around 1636. The drawings give a lively idea of the conditions and the manner in which travelers undertook their travels at the time. Pieter van Lint was also active as a designer of tapestries. Correspondence between the Antwerp trader Hendrik Lenaerts and the

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weavers Jan van Leefdael and Gerard van der Strecken dated 1660 shows that van Lint had designed 8 cartoons for a ''Story of Domitian''. A tapestry series dated 1639 on the ''Story of the Virgin Mary'' still preserved in the Pottery convent in

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is believed to have been made after models by Pieter van Lint.Thomas P. Campbell, Pascal-François Bertrand, Jeri Bapasola, 'Tapestry in the Baroque: Threads of Splendor', Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1 Jan 2007, pp. 213–214 Pieter van Lint - Sleeping travellers

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Lint, Pieter van 1609 births 1690 deaths Flemish Baroque painters Flemish history painters Flemish portrait painters Artists from Antwerp Painters from Antwerp