Pieter Verhoek, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Pieter Verhoek

Dutch painter, sculptor and poet

Date of Birth: 04-Sep-1633

Place of Birth: Bodegraven, South Holland, Netherlands

Date of Death: 29-Sep-1702

Profession: poet, painter

Nationality: Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Pieter Verhoek (1633 in Bodegraven – 1702 in Amsterdam), was a Dutch Golden Age poet and painter. According to Houbraken he was the brother of Gysbert Verhoek.
He was the pupil of Jacob van der Ulft of Gorinchem who taught him to be a glass painter, and then he moved to Amsterdam and became a pupil of Abraham Hondius.
He travelled to Italy and learned to make battle scenes in the manner of Jacques Courtois.
Back in Amsterdam he became a member of the poet's society (Dutch: Dight-Schoole) of Jan Zoet, Nil volentibus arduum, and wrote a play Karel de Stoute that was first performed in the Amsterdam theatre in 1689.
He wrote a poem in honor of Gerard de Lairesse and according to J.C.
Weyerman he was good friends with the landscape painters Job and Gerrit Berckheyde.According to the RKD he was the brother of Gysbert and the nephew of Johannes Verhoek (who translated R de Piles from French in Dutch).

Arnoud van Halen (1673–1732)
Alternative names	Arend van Halen, Aquila
Description	Dutch painter and draughtsman
Date of birth/death	1673	15 July 1732
Location of birth/death	Amsterdam	Amsterdam
Work period	between 1688 and 1732 date QS:P,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P1319,+1688-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1732-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Work location	Amsterdam
Authority control	: Q4795396 VIAF: 121831789 ISNI: 0000 0001 1580 9265 ULAN: 500027456 DBNL: hale001 GND: 101466528