Slight discoloration (see photo’s).
Frame size: 38 x 32 cm
Image size: 26 x 20 cm
Evert Pieters was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands December 11, 1856 and died in Laren February 17, 1932. Pieters is considered a genre, marine and landscape painter from the Dutch Contemporary School. In addition to being a very skilled artist in oils, he was also an accomplished draughtsman and engraver.
Pieters began his formal art studies with painter Theodoor Verstraete at the Academy of Amsterdam. Verstraete, who was heavily influenced French Barbizon painters Jean Francois Millet (1814-1875) and Jean Baptiste Camille Corot (1796-1875), would pass that influence on to Pieters. He would continue his studies with Charles Verlat (1824-1890) at the Antwerp Academy of Fine Art. Verlat was more of an academic historical, portrait and genre painter than Verstraete therefore adding additional disciplines to his education. Pieters would combine the influences and teachings of Verstraete and Verlat to develop a very unique original style of painting.
In 1886, Pieters would leave Antwerp and traveled to Blaricum, followed by a trip to Paris in 1896. During World War I, he voyaged as well to London and Scotland, eventually settling in Laren in 1917.
Pieters exhibited in many cities throughout Europe, including Paris with the Salon des Artistes Francais, and in Scotland at the Royal Scottish Academy in 1913. Between the years 1895 and 1905, he showed a number of canvases in Amsterdam. At the 1896 Exposition Universelle, Pieters was awarded a third place medal, a gold medal at the Salon de Champs Elysées and a silver medal at the 1900 Exposition Universelle. In 1910, Pieters was invited to exhibit in Milwaukee’s "The Greatest Dutch Painters." The exhibition was an enormous success.
The honors, his successes and popularity would continue in the United States, England and the European continent. Pieters was honored with his appointments as member of the Pulchri Studio at The Hague, the Academy of Antwerp, and of Arti et Amicitiae in Amsterdam