Pieter Stevens II

Fishing at night

Pieter Stevens II or Peter Stevens II[1] (ca. 1567 in Mechelen – after 1626 in Prague) was a Flemish painter and draughtsman known for his landscapes. He left Flanders to work for the court of Emperor Rudolf II in Prague.[2] The circulation of prints made after a series of romantic Bohemian landscape drawings by Stevens and other artists had an important influence on the development of Flemish and Dutch landscape art in the 17th century.[3]

  1. ^ Name variations: Peeter Stevens II, Pieter Stevens (II), Pieter Steevens (II), Pieter Stefani (II), Pieter Steffan (II), Pieter Steffens (II), Pieter Stephan (II), Pieter Stephani (II), Pieter Stephens (II), Pieter Stivens (II). In written sources relating to the Prague court his name is consistently written as 'Peter' or 'Petter'; he usually signed "Petrys" or "Peter
  2. ^ Pieter Stevens (II) at the Netherlands Institute for Art History (in Dutch)
  3. ^ An Zwollo. "Stevens, Pieter." Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press. Web. 21 March 2022