Peter van Bleeck
Petrus Johannes ( Pieter ) van Bleeck ( baptized on 25 June 1697 in 's- Gravenhage, † July 20, 1764, in London) was a Dutch portrait painter and engraver who was active as an artist in the first place in London.
Life
The 1697 -born ( according to other sources even 1700) in The Hague as the son of the portrait painter Richard van Bleeck Peter van Bleeck moved to his training with Daniel Haring and Theodor van Schuur in the absence of orders in 1723 with his large family to London, where he above all things was known for his portraits and screenshots of personalities of the London theater scene, such as for portraits of Owen Swiny (1737), Benjamin Griffin, Benjamin Johnson, Kitty Clive and Margaret Woffington. In addition, he also painted other then-known personalities such as the theologian James Foster.
His paintings were usually very rapidly spread as etchings, in part, by the well-known engraver John Faber Junior, who used it as a base for your own creations as in the case of the popular actress Kitty Clive.
Its estimated due to their Tonwerteumfangs and the Faithful etchings are in the collections of the National Portrait Gallery and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and other major art collections. He signed his pictures usually with a diagonally crossed large P and B or the letter sequence PVB.
His brother Baptist van Bleeck ( 1673-1719/20 ) worked as a sculptor, another brother, Richard van Bleeck (* 1670 ) as a history painter.
Peter van Bleeck died 1764 in London.
Weblink
- Commons: Peter van Bleeck - collection of images, videos and audio files
- Works of Peter van Bleeck in the National Portrait Gallery. Accessed on September 12th, 2012.
- Etchings Peter van Bleeck in the British Museum. Accessed on September 12th, 2012.
- Anecdotes of painting in England, by Horace Walpole and others, page 54
- Http://www.georgeglazer.com/prints/portraits/phebe.html
- Bleeck, Pieter van within the RKD database. Accessed on September 12th, 2012.