Pieter Hermansz Verelst

An Italian street scene with Bamboccianti playing cards and a quack preparing concoctions.

Pieter Harmensz Verelst (c. 1618, Dordrecht – c. 1678 in Dordrecht or Hulst) was a Dutch Golden Age painter. Three of his sons, Simon, Herman, and Johannes Verelst, also became painters.

Biography

Pieter Verelst was a pupil of Gerard Dou and Jacob Gerritsz Cuyp. In 1638, he became a member of the Dordrecht Guild of St. Luke. In 1643 he lived in the Hague near Jan van Goyen. Verelst produced five supraportes for Huis ten Bosch. In 1651 he went broke. In 1656, he was one of the founders of the local Confrerie Pictura. His pupils were Hermanus van Grevenbroeck, Anthony de Haen, Otto Hoynck, Hendrik Mony, Gabriel Siebrick and his sons Herman, Johannes and Simon Pietersz Verelst. After his wife died he remarried in 1657. In 1660 he moved to Veerkade.

He is known mostly for genre paintings of Dutch and Italian village life. He moved in the 1670s to Hulst where he became a brewer.

Family tree

Pieter Hermansz Verelst 1618–1678

Herman Verelst 1641–1702

Simon Pietersz Verelst 1644–1721?

John Verelst 1648–1734

Cornelis Verelst 1667?–1734

Maria Verelst 1680–1744

William Verelst 1704–1752

External links

• Pieter Harmensz Verelst on Artnet.
• Pieter Verelst at PubHist.
• https://www.theleidencollection.com/artists/pieter-verelst/