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Pieter Neeffs I

Pieter Neeffs I (1578 - 1661) was active/lived in Belgium, Flemish.  Pieter Neeffs I is known for Architectural interior painting, drawing.

Pieter Neeffs was a painter and draughtsman and one of a Flemish family of artists. The family specialized in paintings of architectural interiors. Their most frequent subject was the interior of Antwerp Cathedral; the details of sculpture, altars and paintings vary in accuracy, and sometimes the subject seems to be very freely interpreted. The Neefs also liked to depict the effects of artificial illumination in crypt-like spaces (in the manner of Hendrick van Steenwijck the younger).

It has been suggested that Pieter was born just after his elder brothers, who were born in 1576 and 1577 in Antwerp, where the family lived. Pieter was probably taught by Hendrick van Steenwijk the elder or younger; the latter's influence is evident in his work. The earliest record of Pieter Neefs is a signed and dated painting of the Interior of a Gothic Church (1605; Dresden, Gemäldegallerie, Alte Meister). In 1609-10 Pieter was enrolled as a master in th   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3236 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about Pieter Neeffs I

   Pieter Neeffs I  Born:  1578 - Antwerp, Belgium
Died:   1661 - Antwerp, Belgium
Known for:  Architectural interior painting, drawing
Name variants:  Peeter the Elder Neefs, Pieter (The Elder) Neefs, Pieter Neffs

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Pieter Neeffs was a painter and draughtsman and one of a Flemish family of artists. The family specialized in paintings of architectural interiors. Their most frequent subject was the interior of Antwerp Cathedral; the details of sculpture, altars and paintings vary in accuracy, and sometimes the subject seems to be very freely interpreted. The Neefs also liked to depict the effects of artificial illumination in crypt-like spaces (in the manner of Hendrick van Steenwijck the younger).

It has been suggested that Pieter was born just after his elder brothers, who were born in 1576 and 1577 in Antwerp, where the family lived. Pieter was probably taught by Hendrick van Steenwijk the elder or younger; the latter's influence is evident in his work. The earliest record of Pieter Neefs is a signed and dated painting of the Interior of a Gothic Church (1605; Dresden, Gemäldegallerie, Alte Meister). In 1609-10 Pieter was enrolled as a master in the Guild of St Luke in Antwerp, and on 30 April 1612 he married Maria Lauterbeens (d 1655-6), with whom he had five children. In 1636 he painted an Interior of St Paul's, Antwerp (Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum). His paintings have a delicate tonality with a softness in the transitions between light and shade.
 
Neeffs is represented in the following collections: The Hermitage, St. Petersburg; National Gallery, London; Wallace Collection, London; National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon; Kunsthistorisches Museum; Vienna; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam; Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford; Bowes Museum, County Durham; Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, amongst others.

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Biography from La Suite Subastas

Pieter Neefs was the head of the family of painters with this surname and specialized in the representation of lit, nocturnal interiors, particularly of churches. He entered the painters' Guild of Saint Luke around 1609 or 1610. As the Prado states in their file on Neefs, “the soft tones and the sophisticated transitions between spaces of light and shadow are the main characteristics of his style”. The museum goes on to point out that "the exact date of his death is not known, but it must have been between 1656, the last year for which there is data on him, and 1661 when Cornelis de Bie speaks of him in the past tense in his 'Het gulden cabinet'” Neefs probably trained with Hendrick van Steenwijck. The painter and art theorist Vredeman de Vries and his studies on perspective had a great influence on the artist. He collaborated with important painters such as Frans Francken II, his son Frans Francken III, Pieter Brueghel the Younger and Sebastian Vrancx, among others. Highlights among his preserved paintings, are the panel "Church of Flanders" or "The Mass" (inv. 1605) from 1618, currently exhibited in the Prado; “Viaticum inside a church” (inv. 1600) from 1636, signed together with Frans Francken II, also in the Prado; as well as another panel also signed by both painters, "Evening Mass in a Gothic Church" (inv. 640), in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.


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