24 facts about Pieter de Neyn

Pieter de Neyn, or Deneyn (December 1597 – 16 March 1639) was a Dutch Golden Age painter.

According to Houbraken Deneyn’s daddy apprenticed him to a mason, where he stayed a few years but approved to chemical analysis further, specifically the fields of mathematics and architecture. His parents could not offer a proper education, and he became great enough at masonry that he began to tutor others. He became links with painters, particularly landscape painter Esaias van de Velde, who helped him taking into account his paints and gave him tips how to become a great landscape painter. In 1632, he became city sculptor. He died of lung disease, which Houbraken claims was common among masons.

According to the Netherlands Institute for Art History (RKD), he painted landscapes and fight scenes, and was a pupil from 1611 to 1617 of Esaias van de Velde in Haarlem during the thesame period as Jan van Goyen, who with influenced his work. After 1617 he became moved support to Leiden where he married. He is sometimes mortified with the engraver Pieter Nolpe, who in addition to signed his works “P.N.”. His cronies were P.D. Bools, and the monogrammists A.V.Z. and L.B.