Pieter Mol - Artist Info

About Pieter Mol

  • Biography

    Pieter van Mol was born in 1599 in Antwerp. He trained in the workshop of Artus Wolffort, who like van Mol’s other great influence, Peter Paul Rubens, was a pupil of Otto van Veen. By 1623/4 he was made a master of the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke. In 1631 Von Mol moved to Paris where by 1640 he was recorded as court painter to the French Queen, Anne of Austria. There, he was commissioned to paint a major work The Adoration of The Shepherds for the Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Près (now in the Musée des Beaux-Arts Marseille). He was later a founding member of the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture which was established nearby in 1648.

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