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Pieter Biesboer (born 1944), is a Dutch art historian and prolific writer on 17th-century Dutch art. His specialty is art from Haarlem.


Career

Biesboer was a curator at Stedelijk Museum het Prinsenhof in Delft during the years 1973-1976. Biesboer became a curator of old masters at the
Frans Hals Museum The Frans Hals Museum is a museum located in Haarlem, the Netherlands. The museum was established in 1862. In 1950, the museum was split in two locations when the collection of modern art was moved to the '' Museum De Hallen'' (since 2018 called ...
in Haarlem until he retired in 2009. Biesboer's publications include exhibition catalogs and research publications as well as important work for the
Getty Research Institute The Getty Research Institute (GRI), located at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, California, is "dedicated to furthering knowledge and advancing understanding of the visual arts".
on the
Thieme-Becker Thieme-Becker is a German biographical dictionary of artists. Thieme-Becker The dictionary was begun under the editorship of Ulrich Thieme (1865–1922) (volumes one to fifteen) and Felix Becker (1864–1928) (volumes one to four). It was complet ...
catalog. After his retirement he began working on the Haarlem pages of the Getty Provenance Index.Speech by Pieter Biesboer 13 October 2011
for the
Toledo Museum of Art The Toledo Museum of Art is an internationally known art museum located in the Old West End neighborhood of Toledo, Ohio. It houses a collection of more than 30,000 objects. With 45 galleries, it covers 280,000 square feet and is currently in th ...
on the occasion of their acquisition of the Frans Hals painting '' Gijsbert Claesz van Campen family portrait in a Landscape'', itself the left half of a larger canvas, with an extra baby lower left added by
Salomon de Bray Salomon de Bray (1597 – 11 May 1664) was a Dutch Golden Age painter and architect. Biography De Bray was born in Amsterdam, but established himself in Haarlem before 1617, where he is registered as being a member of the schutterij that y ...
in 1628


Some Publications

* ''Frans Hals'', by Seymour Slive, Pieter Biesboer and others, 1989, * ''
Judith Leyster Judith Jans Leyster (also Leijster; baptised July 28, 1609Molenaer, JudithNational Gallery of Art website. Accessed February 1, 2014. – February 10, 1660) was a Dutch Golden Age painter of genre works, portraits, and still lifes. Her work was ...
: a Dutch master and her world'', by James A. Welu, Pieter Biesboer, Haarlem, Frans Hals Museum, Waanders, 1993 * 'Topographical Identifications for a Number of "Haerlempjes" by Jacob van Ruisdael, in ''Shop Talk. Studies in Honor of Seymour Slive, Cambridge, Mass, 1995, 36-39 * ''De Vlamingen in Haarlem'', Zwolle, Waanders, 1997 * ''Collections of paintings in Haarlem, 1572-1745'', by P Biesboer; Carol Togneri, Los Angeles, Getty Provenance Index, Getty Research Institute, 2001 * ''
Pieter Claesz Pieter Claesz (c. 1597 – 1 January 1660) was a Dutch Golden Age painter of still lifes. Biography He was born in Berchem, Belgium, near Antwerp, where he became a member of the Guild of St. Luke in 1620. He moved to Haarlem in 1620, wher ...
: Master of Haarlem Still Life'', by Pieter Biesboer and others, Zwolle, Waanders Publishers, 2004 * ''De Gouden Eeuw begint in Haarlem'', by Pieter Biesboer, Haarlem, Frans Hals Museum & NAi, 2008 * ''Painting family : the De Brays : master painters of the 17th century Holland'', by Pieter Biesboer, Zwolle, Waanders, 2008 * 'De Laughing Cavalier van Frans Hals. Een mogelijke identificatie', in: ''Face Book. Studies on Dutch and Flemish Portraiture of the 16th-18th Centuries'', The Hague 2013, p. 133-140 * 'The Identification of a Family Portrait by Frans Hals Recently Acquired by The Toledo Museum of Art', The Burlington Magazine 155, nr. 1319 (2013): 72-76 * 'De Haarlemse zilversmid Gerrit Pietersz Pauw (1605/06-1648)', in: ''De Stavelij Jaarboek'' 2014/15, p. 46-55 * 'Barend Gast (ca. 1625-1679)meesterzilversmid in Delft en Leiden', in: ''De Stavelij Jaarboek'' 2016, p. 26-31. * 'Philips Lu(y)da (1634/35-1673, meesterzilversmid in Delft', in: ''De Stavelij Jaarboek'' 2016, p. 32-39 * 'De Delftse zilversmid Nicolaes Adriaensz de Grebber (1544/45-1613)', in: ''De Stavelij Jaarboek'' 2018, p. 46-54 * 'De Delftse zilversmid Adriaen Claesz de Grebber (1576/77-1658). Naamsverwarringen, nieuwe documenten en verbanden', in: ''De Stavelij Jaarboek'' 2018, p. 55-71 * 'De identificatie van een familieportret door Frans Hals: nieuwe documenten', in Portretten van Frans Hals. Een familiereünie, cat. tent. Toledo, The Toledo Museum of Art; Brussel, KK Musea voor Schone Kunsten van België; Parijs, Fondation Custiodia, collectie Lugt, 2018-2019 * ''Delfts Zilver. Delftse goud- en zilversmeden en hun merken 1536-1807'', Zwolle 2020


References


Pieter Biesboer
on codart {{DEFAULTSORT:Biesboer, Pieter 1944 births Living people Dutch art historians Writers from Haarlem Frans Hals Museum