Pieter Barbiers (painter)

Pieter Antonsz Barbiers (bapt. April 23, 1717 in Amsterdam – September 7, 1780 in Amsterdam) was a skillful Dutch artist. He painted scenery for the theaters in Amsterdam, Leiden, etc., and a picture representing the conflagration of the former in the year 1772 has been engraved by C. Bagerts.

Portrait of Pieter Barbiers

His sons Bartholomeus Barbiers and Pieter Pietersz Barbiers were also painters.

References

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rose, Hugh James (1857). "Barbiers, Peter". A New General Biographical Dictionary. 3 BAH–BEE. London: B. Fellowes et al. p. 151.


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