Pieter van Schuppen (1627-1702)
• Also known in France as Pierre Louis van Schuppen.
• Was a Flemish painter and engraver.
• Pieter van Schuppen studied painting in Antwerp from 1639.
• He became master in the local guild of St Luke in 1651.
• He then left Antwerp and settled in 1655 in Paris, where he became a pupil of Robert Nanteuil.
• He was admitted to the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture in 1663.
• He married Elisabeth de Mesmaker.
• The couple had five children.
• Their son Jacob van Schuppen was taught the principles of art by his father and became a prominent painter in Vienna.