Pieter BARBIERS
Amsterdam 1717 - Amsterdam 1780
Biography
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.
