Pieter Isaacsz

Pieter Isaacsz, was a Danish-born Dutch Golden Age painter.

According to Flemish art historian Karel van Mander, Pieter Isaacsz spent a year and a half in Amsterdam, learning to paint under the instruction of Cornelis Ketel. Isaacz would later study under Hans von Aachen.

Pieter Isaacsz' father was from Haarlem, Netherlands. Van Mander claimed the father still lived in Amsterdam, and went on to describe several portraits by him which he particularly admired, including a half-length portrait of Sara Schurmans playing a citar. His most popular piece was an oil-on-copper painting with a procession of angry women in Rome on hearing that the Senate had decided in favor of polygamy for men.

Later in his life Pieter Isaacsz became the teacher of Adriaen van Nieulandt, according to Dutch art historian Arnold Houbraken (who mistakenly called Isaacz "Pieter Fransz"). According to the RKD (Netherlands Institute for Art History), Isaacsz travelled back and forth to Denmark several times, which is possibly where he later died.

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