PEE, Jan van

Dutch painter and art dealer, the son of the Amsterdam art dealer Emanuel van Pee. He began working for his father at a young age making copies of small cabinetGLOSSARYA small, private room where works of art, valuables and curiosities were kept and contemplated at leisure; over time the term was used for the collections themselves. Renaissance cabinets played an important role in the development of museums and art galleries. paintings. He married to Hendrika Matthysdr in 1657 in Leiden and they had children,

He travelled to Antwerp via Leiden and Rotterdam, spent eight months there and in the churches he viewed the work of Rubens, Jordaens, and Van Dyck. He financed his trip by painting and selling pictures on the market in Antwerp.

Returning to the North, he lived in Amsterdam in 1659. He was specialized as a copyist of Italian paintings and worked for Gerrit van Uylenburgh. However, he also made genreGLOSSARYIn a broad sense, the term is used to mean a particular branch or category of art; landscape and portraiture, for example, are genres of painting, and the essay and the short story are genres of literature. scenes of his own invention.

From 1684 he is registered in the Antwerp 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 with many pupils. He was the teacher of his son Theodor van Pee (1669-1746), and the grandfather of the miniatureGLOSSARYTerm originally applied to the art of manuscript illumination but later used of paintings, usually portraits, executed on a very small scale. The earliest miniaturists (16th century) continued to use the materials of the illuminators, painting in gouache on vellum or card. painter Henriëtte van Pee (1692-1741). From 1684 he is registered in the Antwerp Guild of St. Luke with many pupils.