Pieter Neeffs I

Peeter Neeffs the Elder (c. 1578 in Antwerp; † around 1659 ) was a Dutch painter.

Life

Neeffs is a student of architecture painter Hendrick van Steenwyck be the been older, worked as a painter since 1605 and was incorporated in 1609 proven in the Guild of St. Luke at Antwerp, where he had worked since 1655 and still lived.

His numerous pictures in the Louvre at Paris, in the Pinakothek at Munich, in the Museum at Ghent, in the Gallery at Dresden, inter alia, O., mostly inner views of churches whose darkness is lit by torches and candles are excellent in the air and line perspective as well as in lighting effects. The treatment is very fine and clean, but not without hardship. The figures are often painted him Frans Francken, Teniers, Pieter Bruegel and Theodor van Thulden. His works are quite common.

His son Peeter Neeffs ( the Younger ) (ca. 1620 -ca. 1675), a pupil of Hendrick van the Younger Steenwyck, flourished about 1650-60 and painted in the same kind His paintings are difficult to distinguish from those of the father.