Pieter Jacobsz Codde (1599-1678)

• Was a Dutch painter of genre works.
• Codde was a technically skilled painter.
• He is said to have studied with Frans Hals, but it is more likely that his training was with the portrait painter, actor and art-dealer Barent van Someren or possibly with Cornelis van der Voort.
• In 1623 he married the 18-year-old Marritje Arents.
• In 1636 the couple divorced, his wife went to live with Pieter Potter, their neighbor and the father of the painter Paulus Potter.
• Codde's pupil was Willem Duyster, who was about the same age, and Jacob Duck was influenced by him.
• Adriaen Brouwer, Gerard Terborch, and Pieter Quast also belonged to this group of painters that developed the style of genre scene.
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