Pieter Pietersz the Elder (1540 - 1603)

• Was a Dutch Renaissance painter.
• Pietersz was born in Antwerp.
• According to Karel van Mander, who mentioned him in his biography of his father Pieter Aertsen, he followed in his father's footsteps but took to portrait painting.
• According to the RKD he was called "Jonge Lange Pier" as the oldest son of the painter Pieter Aertsen ("Lange Pier").

• He was the older brother of the painters Aert and Dirk Pietersz, and grandfather of the painter Dirck van Santvoort.

• From 1569 to 1583 he produced religious scenes in Haarlem.

• He was the teacher of his son, the painter Pieter Pietersz II, and the painter Cornelis van Haarlem.

• He received many commissions and was a wealthy man at the time of his death in Amsterdam.

• He died in 1603 at age 62.

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