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Pieter Withoos

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Pieter Withoos (1655 – 23 April 1692), was a Dutch Golden Age painter.

Withoos was born in Amersfoort. According to Houbraken he was the second son of Mathias Withoos, brother to the painters Johannes, Frans and Alida Withoos.[1] He painted flowers and all sorts of small insects and animals in watercolours, mostly for albums of garden art collectors.[1]

According to the RKD he moved with his family to Hoorn in the rampjaar, 1672.[2] He died in Amsterdam.

References

  1. ^ a b (in Dutch) Pieter Withoos Biography in De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature
  2. ^ Pieter Withoos in the RKD