Petrus Johannes van Reysschoot

Fête champêtre with ladies seated by a tree and figures from the commedia dell'arte

Petrus Johannes van Reysschoot or Pieter van Reysschoot[1] (Ghent, 18 January 1702 – Ghent, 22 or 24 February 1772) was a Flemish painter and printmaker who is known for his genre scenes, hunting scenes, landscapes, portraits and Christian religious subjects.[2] He spent a large part of his career in England, which earned him the nickname den Engelschman ('the Englishman').[3] In England he painted history and sporting (i.e. hunting) scenes and was a portrait painter working on commissions particularly from the Midlands gentry.[4]

  1. ^ Name variations: Peter John van Reysschoot, Pieter Jan van Reijsschoot, Pieter Van Reijsschoot
  2. ^ Petrus Johannes van Reysschoot at the Netherlands Institute for Art History (in Dutch)
  3. ^ Victor van der Haeghen, Reysschoot, Pierre-Jean Van in: Biographie nationale de Belgique, Volume 7, p. 232-234 (in French)
  4. ^ Petrus Johannes van Reysschoot, Danvers Osborn (1715–1753), Governor of New York by Sotheby's