An artist of the Dutch school, Evert Pieters typically painted genre scenes, portraits, nudes, interiors, landscapes, and seascapes. In his reference book Dictionary of Belgian Painters Born Between 1750 & 1875, art historian Berko writes: [Pieters'] "paintings, tinged with slightly melancholic realism, are full of calm and serene feeling."

In addition to being a very skilled artist in oils, he was also an accomplished draftsman and engraver. First a student at the Academy of Amsterdam, he went on to study under the highly acclaimed painters Thomas Verstraete and C. Verlat at the Antwerp Academy of Fine Art. He lived in Antwerp until 1886, and then traveled to Blaricum, and eventually...