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Pieter Neefs the Younger

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30: 168: 113: 73: 182: 124:. His paintings show real as well as imaginary interiors of churches. The interior of Antwerp Cathedral was one of his preferred subjects and many of his imaginary church interiors are a pastiche of elements of Antwerp Cathedral. Like his father, he painted several nocturnal scenes of church interiors sometimes paired with daylight renderings of the same scenes. An example is the pair of 427: 214:
such as baptism, communion, marriage, Mass, confession, the giving of alms, etc. All of these activities were often included in a single composition in a church swarming with priests and bristling with statues and paintings. This stands in sharp contrast with the purged interiors of the churches in
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Neefs the Younger collaborated with a number of different artists, in the first place his own father. The closeness in style of father and son and the fact that the two artists used a similar signature have created considerable confusion in attributing works to either artist. Some attributions are
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Father and son van Steenwijck and the two generations of the family Neefs painters are considered to be representatives of the Antwerp school of architectural painting. Typical for their style was the use of a rigid linear perspective which offers a view directly down the nave of the church. This
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also became a painter. The two brothers both trained with their father and as a result, their works were very close to their father's, and attributions of their individual hands can be difficult. After the death of their father sometime after 1656, the sons took over the family workshop.
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Pieter Neefs the Younger continued the tradition of the church interior in Antwerp in the manner created by his father and other artists of the previous generation like
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Pieter the Younger specialised in architectural subjects, particularly Gothic church interiors and some dungeon interiors. His earliest extant work is dated 1646.
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Pieter Neefs the Younger was baptized in Antwerp on 23 May 1620. His father was the painter Pieter Neefs the Elder and his mother Maria Louterbeens.
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The last date on which he is known to have been active is 1675, a date found on a picture formerly in Vienna (Vaduz,
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who mainly specialized in architectural interiors of churches. Son of the prominent architectural painter
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based on the dress of the figures depicted in the compositions. This is for example the case with the
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showing a diurnal and nocturnal view of two gothic churches with slightly different interiors.
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The works of Pieter Neefs the Elder and Younger have been called propaganda for the Catholic
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who provided the staffage to his interiors. His output was as large as that of his father.
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Tilman Seebass. 'Imago Musicae 1986, Volume 3', Duke University Press, 1987, p. 52
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Pieter Neefs the Younger appears never to have become a member of the Antwerp
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Andrew Pettegree, 'The Reformation World', Psychology Press, 2000, p. 507
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The other artists with whom Neefs the Younger collaborated included
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Rembrandt and the Church Interiors of the Delft School
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Prison interior with St Peter fleeing with the angel
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Flemish paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Index

Pieter Neeffs II

Flemish
painter
Pieter Neefs the Elder
Antwerp

Lodewijk
Guild of Saint Luke
Liechtenstein Museum

Hendrick van Steenwyck the Elder
Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest
Interior of a Cathedral, Night Scene
Victoria and Albert Museum
Frans Francken III
David Teniers the Younger
Bonaventura Peeters the Elder
Interior of a Gothic Church in Day Light
Interior of a Gothic Church at Night
Dirck van Delen
Bartholomeus van Bassen
Counter Reformation
sacraments
Dutch Republic
Emanuel de Witte
Gerrit Berckheyde
Gerrit Houckgeest
Pieter Neefs (II)
Netherlands Institute for Art History

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