Pieter de Putter (1600-1659)

• Was a Dutch still life painter.
• He mainly painted fish still lifes, game pieces and still lifes with figures.
• Pieter de Putter was among the first generation of artists who specialized in independent fish still life paintings.
• Pieter was born around 1600 in Middelburg as the son of Joost Joostensz. de Putter.

• From 1605 Pieter and his family are recorded in The Hague.

• He married Maria van den Queborn in The Hague in 1626.

• His wife was the aunt of Anna van den Queborn who was married to the painter Abraham van Beijeren.

• He became a member of the Hague guild at an unknown date and was nominated as its deacon in 1639 and 1640 but was not elected.

• He was the master of Jacob Biltius, a painter of hunting still lives and trompe-l'œil scenes.

• He moved to Beverwijk in 1658.

• Here he died and he was buried on 20 November 1659.

• He signed his works with a complex monogram consisting of the letters PDVTR, with the P drawn inside the D.

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