Pieter Jansz van Asch
{{Short description|Dutch Golden Age painter}}
{{Infobox artist
| name = Pieter Jansz van Asch
| image = Zelfportret Rijksmuseum SK-A-2106.jpeg
| caption = Pieter Jansz van Asch. Self-portrait with one of his landscapes.
| birth_name = Pieter Jansz van Asch
| birth_date = 1603
| birth_place = Delft, Dutch Republic
| death_date = {{death year and age|1678|1603}}
| death_place = Delft, Dutch Republic
| nationality = Dutch
| field = Painting
| movement = Baroque
}}
Pieter Jansz van Asch (1603 – 6 June 1678 (buried)) was a Dutch Golden Age painter.
Biography
He was born at Delft, the son of the portrait painter Jan van Asch and joined the Guild of St. Luke in 1623.[https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/2693 Pieter van Asch] in the RKD According to Arnold Houbraken, he specialized in small landscapes, but his productivity was hampered by caring for his parents.[http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/houb005groo01_01/houb005groo01_01_0120.htm Pieter Janze van Asch biography] in De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen(1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature Jan Verkolje knew him and made a mezzotint of him. The city of Delft paid him 100 guilders for a schoorsteenstuk or overmantel piece in the City Hall known as the Prinsenhof.[http://www.wikidelft.nl/index.php?title=Toon_object&identifier=105525 Overmantel piece] in the records of the Prinsenhof
His works are influenced by the painters Pieter de Bloot, Jan Both, Joachim Govertsz Camphuysen, Anthonie Jansz van der Croos, Jan Josefsz van Goyen, and Jan Gabrielsz Sonjé. He in turn influenced the painter Jacobus Coert. He died and was buried in his home town of Delft.
Legacy
van Asch has paintings in public collections including four in the United Kingdom.{{Art UK bio}}
{{Commons category|Pieter van Asch}}
References
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- [http://www.artnet.com/artists/pieter-jansz-van-asch/past-auction-results Pieter Jansz van Asch] on Artnet
External links
- [http://www.xs4all.nl/~kalden/dart/d-a-asch.htm Artists' Biography]
- [http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/a/asch/ Works at WGA]
- [http://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15324coll10/id/65202/rec/17 Vermeer and The Delft School], a full text exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which contains material on Pieter Jansz van Asch
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