Evert pieters biography of michaels

Known for its landscapes and interiors. Later in his oeuvre, more and more light entered his paintings: he surrounded his firmly set scenes with a sunny atmosphere. His paintings were very popular with the public and were often sold directly from the easel to America. Pieters was born into a poor family and at a young age he was a house painters apprentice.

At the age of nineteen he went to Antwerp in the hope of building a better life there as an apprentice decorator. He visited the evening drawing classes at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Antwerp with Charles Verlat and practiced hard drawing from. In his spare time he painted from pictures and engravings. Later he was apprenticed to the Belgian landscape painter Theodoor Verstraete.

From that time on, he would focus entirely on painting. He was awarded a gold medal at the Paris Salon in for this same canvas.

Artist Evert Pieters. Artbol does

He married Marie van de Bossche with whom he stayed for some time in Paris and Barbizon. In his early period he mainly painted still lifes and landscapes in a style that was related to the old Dutch masters. The sale of these went well and this resulted in regular orders. In Pieters withdrew to the Netherlands and in at the age of 41 he settled in Blaricum.

The picturesque nature of the Gooi, the small farms and the simple farming population inspired him to paint farm interiors and intimate farmyards.