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Evert Pieters
Dutch painter
Evert Pieters (11 December 1856, Amsterdam - 17 February 1932, Laren) was a Dutch painter, known primarily for landscapes and interiors.
Biography
He was born to a poor family and was apprenticed to a house painter at an early age. At the age of nineteen, he went to Antwerp, seeking an apprenticeship with a decorative painter to improve his chances of earning a good living.
While there, he also took drawing classes in the evening at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts.
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Eventually, he found a position with the Belgian landscape painter, Theodoor Verstraete.[1]
He had his first successful showing at the Exposition Universelle d'Anvers (1885). He remained in Belgium as a freelance painter and won a medal at the Seconde Exposition Internationale d'Anvers in 1894 for his painting of a wheatfield in Flanders.
He married shortly thereafter, dividing his time between Paris and Barbizon; concentrating on landscapes and still-lifes after the styl