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Pieter Jansz van Ruyven (1651, Delft – 1719, Delft), was a Dutch Golden Age painter.

Biography

According to Houbraken he was a pupil of Jacob Jordaens who became specialized in large decorative pieces for ceilings, and walls. He made the festive triumphal arches for the joyous entry of William III of England in the Hague. He knew the painter Adriaen Cornelisz van Linschoten as an old man in Delft.

According to the RKD he was a pupil of Willem Doudijns and became a member of the Confrerie Pictura in the Hague. Most of his known works are still installed in the buildings for which they were made. Although he is registered in Antwerp and in the Hague when Jacob Jordaens was there, the RKD claims he was also a pupil of Hans IV Jordaens, not Jacques Jordaens.

Ceiling painting Entry of the Queen of Sheba in Jerusalem

Possibly by van Ruyven:

• Entry of the Queen of Sheba in Jerusalem, 1700-1709.
• Allegory of the continent of Africa, corner piece.
• America, corner piece.
• Asia, corner piece.
• Europe, corner piece.

References

1. ^ (in Dutch) Pieter Jansz van Ruyven Biography in De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature
2. Pieter Jansz van Ruyven in the RKD

• Pieter Jansz van Ruyven at the Rijksmuseum
• Pieter Jansz van Ruyven on Artnet

External links

• Vermeer and The Delft School, a full text exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which contains material on Pieter Jansz van Ruyven

• 1651 births
• 1719 deaths
• Dutch Golden Age painters
• Dutch male painters
• Painters from Delft
• Painters from The Hague