22 facts about Pieter Anthonisz. van Groenewegen

Pieter Anthonisz. van Groenewegen (1590/1600–1658) was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter.

Groenewegen, who was born in Delft, primarily painted landscapes. He traveled to Italy and between ca. 1615-1623 he lived upon Via Bocca de Leone in Rome, where he became a supporter of the Bentvueghels with the nickname “Leeuw”(Lion). He returned to Delft where he became a aficionado of the Guild of Saint Luke in 1626, but spent the last few years of his vigor in The Hague, where he united the Confrerie Pictura in 1657. He died there in the subsequent to year. Many of his works now reside at the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam.

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