Pietro della Vecchia (1603–1678)

• Was an Italian painter.
• He is believed to have been born in Vicenza in 1603 as the son of Gasparo della Vecchia.
• Pietro was in fact a scion of a well-known Venetian family called 'Dalla Vecchia'.
• Early sources describe Alessandro Varotari, called il Padovanino, as his teacher.
• Della Vecchia probably worked in Padovanino's workshop after his return from Rome in 1625 or 1626.
• From 1629 to 1640 he was a member of the guild of painters in Venice.
• In 1626 he married Clorinda Régnier, a daughter of the Flemish painter Nicolas Régnier.
• Clorinda Régnier was a painter in her own right.
• Lucrezia Régnier, the elder sister of della Vecchia's wife was married to Daniel van den Dyck.
• Della Vecchia, together with his brother-in-law Daniel van den Dyck and their respective spouses, painted wall decorations in the Palazzo Pesaro in Preganziol.
• Della Vecchia opened an academy in his house where live drawing classes were organised.
• Gregorio Lazzarini was one of his pupils in circa 1667.

• His son Gasparo Prospero became a minor painter.

• Pietro della Vecchia also had four daughters.
• Della Vecchia died on 8 September 1678 in Venice and was buried in the church of S. Canciano.

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