Pieter Nason

16 February 1612, Amsterdam - 1688/90, The Hague) was a Dutch painter.

From a MS.[clarification needed] by Pieter Terwesten, it appears not improbable that Nason was a pupil of Jan van Ravensteyn; and it is believed that his name has been effaced from pictures since attributed to Mierevelt, Moreelse, and above all to Ravensteyn.

It is certain that he painted the portrait of Prince Mauritz, Governor of the Brazils, engraved by Houbraken, and those of Charles the Second of England, engraved by C. Van Dalen and Sandrart, and of the Grand Elector.

At Berlin there is a full-length portrait, dated 1667, of the latter, by Nason; also a still life, representing gold, silver, and glass vessels, likewise a portrait by him signed and dated 1670.

Redgrave gives the initial of his Christian name wrongly as R. Attribution: Media related to Pieter Nason at Wikimedia Commons