Pieter Thijs

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Pieter Thijs, Portrait of the Van de Werve Family, 1661. Private Collection.
Pieter Thijs, Portrait of the Van de Werve Family, 1661. Private Collection.

Pieter Thijs (Antwerp, 1624?–1677) was a Flemish Baroque painter whose work was heavily influenced by the courtly and elegant style of Anthony van Dyck. He joined Antwerp's Guild of St. Luke in 1644–45, and soon became successful as a painter of allegorical and mythological histories for patrons in both the Southern Netherlands and the Dutch Republic. He also painted numerous altarpieces for churches in Flanders and Brabant, aristocratic portraits and occasionally added figures to works by the painter Pieter Boel.

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  • Vlieghe, Hans (1998). Flemish art and architecture, 1585-1700. Pelican history of art. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 0300070381