Pieter Oyens

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Pieter Oyens, painted by his twin brother David Oyens (1879)

Pieter Oyens (born July 29, 1842 in Amsterdam , † February 16, 1894 in Brussels ) was a Dutch painter. He was a twin brother of David Oyens , who, like another brother, Joan Elias Oyens, was also a painter.

David and Pieter Oyens were born in 1842 as two of the ten children of the Amsterdam banker Hendrik Gerard Oijens (1804–1886) and Ursula Christina Magdalena Metzler (1805–1868). At the request of their mother, the brothers received drawing lessons from the Amsterdam painter Johannes Hendrik Veldhuijzen from the age of eight .

In the early 1860s they went to Brussels to attend evening classes at the Academy of Arts . Two years later they met the orientalist Jean-François Portaels , in whose studio they met numerous well-known artists, including the painters Édouard Agneessens and Isidore Verheyden and the poet Émile Verhaeren .

The very similar Oyens brothers were inseparable in Brussels. They also shared their studio in Sint-Joost-Ten-Node. From 1875 they became known as portrait and genre painters. They were represented at numerous exhibitions, mostly together, also internationally. They also exhibited at the Paris World's Fair in 1889 , where Pieter received an Honorable Mention.

David Oyens married Betsy Voûte in 1866. Pieter himself did not marry Auguste Krupp until 1893 at the age of 51. Shortly afterwards, however, he suffered a stroke, of which he died in 1894, one month before the birth of his daughter Magdalena Anne. The death of Pieter was a severe blow to his brother David. He started to paint less. He and his wife settled in Arnhem in the late 1890s . He returned to Brussels at the turn of the century, but died shortly afterwards. Pieter and David were buried next to each other.

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