Pieter Cornelisz van Rijck (1567-c. 1637), was a Dutch Golden Age painter.
He was the son of the Haarlem brewer Cornelis van Rijck, brother of the Delft brewer Adriaen and a cousin of the Haarlem nevertheless life painter Floris van Dyck.
According to Van Mander in 1604, he moot to attraction from Jacob Willemsz Delff, but was designed for complementary profession, and spent time on other issue for a few years previously returning to the arts below the tutelage of Huybrecht Jacobsz Grimani for 6 months. He accompanied him to Italy, where he remained for 15 years, working for local and visiting nobility anything over Italy. At the period van Mander was writing, in 1602-1604, he was perky in Haarlem (aged 36) and discussed Italian painters as soon as him. Van Mander mentions a kitchen fragment with a rich man and Lazarus by his hand that was painted for the Het Dolhuys and could be seen there. Van Mander called him a aficionada of Bassaens (Jacopo Bassano).
Houbraken mentioned him as one of the important contemporary painters listed in Van Mander.
According to the RKD he was registered in Venice 1588-1602, Haarlem 1602-1604, and returned to Italy in 1605. He painted portraits, kitchen pieces, and puff scenes and lived in Naples 1632- 1637.
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