Pieter Claeissens the elder
Flemish, 1499/1500-1576
Place activeBruges, Flanders (now Belgium)
Death PlaceBruges, Flanders (now Belgium)
Birth PlaceBruges (?), Flanders (now Belgium)
SchoolAGOArtists
BiographyPieter Claeissens the Elder, a Flemish painter of history and portraits, was the earliest of a large family of artists who lived at Bruges, where he was born. He was a pupil of Adriaan Bekaert, and was admitted into the Guild of St. Luke in that city in 1516, made a master in 1529, and dean in 1572. He died at Bruges in 1576.Person TypeIndividual
Terms
- Artist
- Mannerism
- Male
- Northern Renaissance
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