Pieter Gaal

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Self-portrait from 1802
Study of a ram's head

Pieter Gaal (born July 19, 1770 in Middelburg ; † January 13, 1819 there ) was a painter. He created landscapes, portraits, animal and genre pictures.

Life and works

Pieter Gaal was a son of the wallpaper painter Thomas Gaal , with whom he probably began his training. He then studied with J. Perkois in Middelburg and with HW Schweickhardt in The Hague . There he became a member of the Confrerie van Pictura on October 20, 1786. After Schweickhardt moved to London , Gaal returned to his native city. In 1789 he spent a few months with Schweickhardt in London. A trip to Paris followed in 1791 , after which Pieter Gaal traveled to Italy, Switzerland and Germany, and finally returned to Middelburg.

In 1804 he created two paintings for the Provincial Court in Middelburg that had Moses with the tablets of the law and justice as their theme.

In 1808 he exhibited a portrait of the French general Monet with staff officers in Amsterdam, as well as an animal picture with life-size cattle and sheep and a still life with dead game.

Several of Pieter Gaal's motifs were reproduced in etchings by his son Jacobus Cornelis Gaal .

The Rijksmuseum Amsterdam has had a self-portrait from Gaal from 1802 since 1940.

literature

Web links

Commons : Pieter Gaal  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gaal, Pieter . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 13 : Gaab-Gibus . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1920, p. 2 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ). ; there are also different information, e.g. B. on rkd.nl .
personal data
SURNAME Gaal, Pieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch painter and etcher
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1770
PLACE OF BIRTH Middelburg
DATE OF DEATH January 13, 1819
Place of death Middelburg