Sketches of Figures and Heads
Pieter de Molijn
n.d.
Medium
Pen and brown ink on tan laid paper
Dimensions
24 × 18 cm (9 1/2 × 7 1/8 in.)
Classification
pen and ink drawings
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
83863
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Pieter de Molijn · 1595–1661
**Pieter de Molijn** (1595–1661) was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter of English birth and Flemish descent, baptized on 6 April 1595 in London at the Dutch Reformed Austin Friars church to parents from Ghent and Brussels. His family likely emigrated to England for economic opportunities, but young Pieter returned to the Netherlands, settling in Haarlem where he joined the Guild of St. Luke in ...