All Pieter Gysels's oil paintings



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1807 Garden Garden The Hermitage, St.Petersburg
28471 Garden Garden mk60 Oil on copper 20 1/2x25 1/2"

Pieter Gysels
1621-1691 Flemish Pieter Gysels Gallery Flemish painter. He began his training in 1641, when he was already 20, with Antwerp painter Jan Boots. Houbraken assumed he was also apprenticed to Jan Breughel II, whose diary describes a painting completed in 1638 as a 'small wild boar somewhat touched up by Gys' ('een klein wilt verxken voor Gys wat geretosieert'). But it seems highly doubtful that, as van der Sanden claimed (Denuce, p. 155), 'Gys' refers to Pieter Gysels. In 1649 or 1650 he became a master in Antwerp's Guild of St Luke. It is not known whether he took on any pupils. On 13 November 1650 he married Joanna Huybrecht, who bore him six children. . Related Artists to : | Hans Olaf Heyerdahl | Guglielmo Girardi | Paul Raud | Tivadar Kosztka Csontvary | Ghasiram Hardev Sharma |