Pieter Verhoek

Pieter Verhoek (1633 in Bodegraven – 1702 in Amsterdam), was a Dutch Golden Age poet and marble painter.

Pieter Verhoek's Portrait (1633-1702)

According to Houbraken he was the brother of Gysbert Verhoek.^[1] He was the pupil of Jacob van der Ulft of Gorinchem who taught him to be a glass painter, and then he moved to Amsterdam and became a pupil of Abraham Hondius.^[2] He travelled to Italy and learned to make battle scenes in the manner of Jacques Courtois.^[2] Back in Amsterdam he became a member of the poet's society (Dutch: Dight-Schoole) of Jan Zoet, Nil volentibus arduum, and wrote a play Karel de Stoute that was first performed in the Amsterdam theatre in 1689.^[2] He wrote a poem in honor of Gerard de Lairesse and according to J.C. Weyerman he was good friends with the landscape painters Job and Gerrit Berckheyde.^[2]

According to the RKD he was the brother of Gysbert and the nephew of Johannes Verhoek (who translated R de Piles from French in Dutch).^[3][4]