Lieve Pietersz Verschuier (1627–1686)

• Was a Dutch Golden Age painter of maritime subjects.
• He was born in Rotterdam, and is documented in Amsterdam in 1651.
• In Amsterdam he possibly learned to paint from Simon de Vlieger.
• He traveled to Rome in 1653 as a young man with Jan Vermeer van Utrecht and became friends with Willem Drost and Johann Carl Loth.
• On his return he settled in Rotterdam in 1667 where he remained, painting marine scenes, and Italianate landscapes.

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