Pieter Withoos
Painter from the Northern Netherlands
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| Intro | Painter from the Northern Netherlands | ||
| Places | Netherlands | ||
| was | Illustrator Botanical illustrator Painter | ||
| Work field | Arts Creativity Science | ||
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| Birth | 1 January 1655, Amersfoort, Utrecht, Netherlands, Kingdom of the Netherlands | ||
| Death | 23 April 1692Amsterdam, Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands (aged 37 years) | ||
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Pieter Withoos (1655 – 23 April 1692), was a Dutch Golden Age painter.
Withoos was born in Amersfoort. According to Houbraken he was the second son of Mathias Withoos, brother to the painters Johannes, Frans and Alida Withoos. He painted flowers and all sorts of small insects and animals in watercolours, mostly for albums of garden art collectors.
According to the RKD he moved with his family to Hoorn in the rampjaar, 1672. He died in Amsterdam.