Pieter Claeissens the Elder

"Pieter Claeissens" redirects here. For his son, see Pieter Claeissens the Younger.

Enthroned Virgin and Child with SS. James the Greater and James the Lesser, 1569, now in the Bode Museum in Berlin.

Pieter Claeissens the Elder (1500–1576), a Flemish painter of history and portraits, was the earliest of a large family of artists who lived at Bruges, where he was born. He was a pupil of Adriaan Bekaert, and was admitted into the Guild of St. Luke in that city in 1516, made a master in 1529, and dean in 1572. He died at Bruges in 1576. In the collection of the Prince of Orange at Brussels was a painting by him of a knight kneeling, with four sons, and in the Copenhagen Museum is a Man's Portrait by him. The name has been often written Claes, Claeis, Claeyssens, and Claeyssoone.

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 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "CLAES, Pieter, the elder". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.[[Category:Wikipedia articles incorporating text from Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, volume 1|]]