NEEFFS, Peeter the Younger

Flemish painter, son of Pieter Neefs the Elder. By 1640 he was collaborating with his father and was never apparently enrolled as an independent master in the GuildGLOSSARYAn association of the masters of a particular craft, trade or profession (painters, goldsmiths, surgeons, and so on) set up to protect its members' rights and interests. Such guilds existed in virtually every European city in the 16th century. The guild also monitored standards of work, acted as a court for those who brought their trade into disrepute, and provided assistance to members in need. of St Luke. He was still active in 1675, the year that appears on his last known dated painting (Vaduz, Sammlung Liechtenstein). He painted the same subjects as his father and it is very difficult to distinguish between their hands.