• Was a Dutch Golden Age painter.
• According to Arnold Houbraken, Pierson was brought up to become a merchant.
• Schooled in Latin, French, and drawing, he spent time as a clerk, but showed more talent for painting, which he learned from friend Bartholomeus Meyburgh.
• He moved to Schiedam, where he married his first wife in 1652.
• In 1653 he travelled with Meyburgh to Germany.
• Upon his return to the Netherlands Pierson moved his household to Gouda, South Holland where.
• In Gouda he also made drawings on parchment of the famous stained glass windows of the Janskerk, including those by the brothers Dirk Crabeth and
Wouter Crabeth I, for the Gouda city council.
• After the death of his first wife, he remarried a woman from Schiedam and moved back there in 1679.
• He was also a good poet, and wrote as many poems as he made paintings.
• He is registered in 1685 as a member of the Schiedam Guild of St. Luke.
