Pieter BARBIERS

(Amsterdam 1717 - Amsterdam 1780)

A Man Pushing Out a Boat

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Pencil, with framing lines in pencil.
Inscribed (in a modern hand) P. Barbiers l’aine(?) on the backing sheet.
115 x 151 mm. (4 1/2 x 6 in.)




Although as a child he received drawing lessons from his father Anthonie, Pieter Antonisz. Barbiers was largely a self-taught artist. He began his career decorating ladies’s fans and designing wallpaper, and eventually made a specialty of large decorative paintings, tapestry designs, and drawings for stage decorations; the latter found him working for theatres in Amsterdam, The Hague, Leiden and Rotterdam. His sons Bartholomeus Barbiers (1740-1808) and Pieter Barbiers II (1749-1842) were also artists, and received their training from him.



Drawings by Barbiers are in the Rijksprentenkabinets in both Amsterdam and Leiden, the Gemeenterachief in Haarlem, and elsewhere.

Provenance

Iohan Quirijn van Regteren Altena, Amsterdam (his posthumous sale stamp [Lugt 4617] stamped on the verso) Thence by descent until 2014.

Pieter BARBIERS

A Man Pushing Out a Boat