Dutch painter

Probably born in Middlburg circa 1600 - 1659 Beverwijk

 

Painter of fish still lifes; occasionally he also painted the interiors of a fisherman’s shed and portraits.

Pieter de Putter was probably the first painter in the Northern Netherlands who specialised in fish still-life painting. According to Fred G. Meijer he must have started depicting fish somewhere in the 1630s.

 

His family had already moved to The Hague before 1605. He was probably a pupil of his father, Joost.

Pieter de Putter spent his complete career in The Hague. He moved to Beverwijk, 20 km NW of Amsterdam, in the year before his death.

  

He was the teacher of the still life painter Jacob Biltius. 

 

Pieter de Putter signed his paintings with a complex monogram “PDVTR”,

with the “P” inside the “D”. 

There is only one dated work known by our painter, from 1644.