Pieter van Lint (1609–1690)

• Was a Flemish painter, draughtsman and designer of tapestries.
• He was born in Antwerp where he trained under Artus Wolffort.
• Van Lint become a master in the Guild of Saint Luke in 1633.
• In that same year he traveled to Rome where he remained until 1640.
• In Rome he worked for Cardinal Domenico Ginnasi, Bishop of Ostia.
• In addition to religious commissions, the artist painted numerous small genre scenes in the style of the Bamboccianti.
• He spent time in Paris from 1640 to 1641.
• The year after his return to Antwerp in 1642 he married Elisabeth Willemyns.
• The couple had seven children.
• When he became widowed in 1679, the artist remarried the following year to Anna Moeren. 

• His pupils included Caerel de las Cuevas, Jan-Baptista Ferrari and Godfried Maes.

• His son Hendrik Frans van Lint from his second marriage was a celebrated landscape painter in Rome.

• He died in Antwerp.

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