Pieter Boel
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Pieter Boel (1626–1674) was a Flemish Baroque painter who specialised in lavish still lifes.
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[edit] Biography
Boel was born in Antwerp. He probably went to Italy in 1650. In 1668, he worked for Charles Le Brun (1619–1690) in his first tapestry making studio. According to Arnold Houbraken, whose source was his picture in Cornelis de Bie's book Het Gulden Cabinet, he specialized in painting animals.[1] He died in Paris.
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- ^ Het Gulden Cabinet, p 363
- (Dutch) Peter Boel biography in De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature
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