# Pieter Meert

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**Pieter Meert** (name variations: Petrus Meert, Peeter Meert, Peeter Meerte, Pieter Meerte, Peeter Merten, Petrus Meerte) (c. 1620 – 1669) was a [Flemish](/source/Flemish_people) [Baroque](/source/Baroque) [painter](/source/Painter) known for his portraits and [genre paintings](/source/Genre_art).[1]

He was born in [Brussels](/source/Brussels). The early Flemish biographer [Cornelis De Bie](/source/Cornelis_De_Bie) reports in his *[Het Gulden Cabinet](/source/Het_Gulden_Cabinet)* published in 1662 that Meert was well known as a portrait painter, who imitated the style of [Anthony van Dyck](/source/Anthony_van_Dyck).[2] According to the Dutch biographer [Arnold Houbraken](/source/Arnold_Houbraken) he was a good portrait painter whose works hung in various [guild](/source/Guild) halls in Brussels.[3]

Peter Capuyns was his pupil.[1]

## References

1. [Pieter Meert](https://rkd.nl/explore/artists/54515) at the [Netherlands Institute for Art History](/source/Netherlands_Institute_for_Art_History) (in Dutch)

1. [Cornelis de Bie, *Het Gulden Cabinet vande Edel Vry Schilder-Const*, 1662, pp. 351–352](https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_3pFbAAAAQAAJ) (in Dutch)

1. [Peeter Meert](http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/origineel.php?origineel=houb005groo01_01_scan0463) in [Arnold Houbraken](/source/Arnold_Houbraken), *Schouburg*, Volume 2, page 50 (in Dutch)

## Sources

- Bryan, Michael (1889). [*Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical*](https://books.google.com/books?id=K2cCAAAAYAAJ&q=Michael+Bryan+Painters+Engravers&pg=PA1). Vol. II L-Z. Walter Armstrong & Robert Edmund Graves (eds.). London: George Bell and Sons. p. 131.

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