Pieter Neefs The Younger

สถานที่: Antwerp

เกิด: 1620

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Pieter Neefs the Younger or Pieter Neeffs the Younger (bapt. 23 May 1620 – after 1675) was a Flemish painter who mainly specialized in architectural interiors of churches. Son of the prominent architectural painter Pieter Neefs the Elder he started out working in his father's workshop in Antwerp. He collaborated with various leading staffage painters to create lively church interiors. Pieter Neefs the Younger was baptized in Antwerp on 23 May 1620. His father was the painter Pieter Neefs the Elder and his mother Maria Louterbeens. Pieter had four siblings of whom his older brother Lodewijk also became a painter. The two brothers both trained with their father and as a result, their works were very close to their father's, and attributions of their individual hands can be difficult. After the death of their father sometime after 1656, the sons took over the family workshop. Pieter Neefs the Younger appears never to have become a member of the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke. While unusual, he was likely never admitted because he was working in his father's workshop. The last date on which he is known to have been active is 1675, a date found on a picture formerly in Vienna (Vaduz, Liechtenstein Museum).