Pieter de Putter

Pieter de Putter (Middelburg, c. 1600 – Beverwijk, buried on 20 November 1659) was a Dutch still life painter who was active in The Hague.

[2] He signed his works with a complex monogram consisting of the letters PDVTR, with the P drawn inside the D.[1] Pieter de Putter, Jan Dirven and Pieter van Schaeyenborch were among the first generation of artists who specialized in independent fish still life paintings, They had thus evolved away from the work of the earlier generation of Flemish and Dutch painters such as Pieter Aertsen and Joachim Beuckelaer who typically created fish still lifes as part of a larger market scene.

[5] Pieter de Putter painted a few still lifes of dead game (pheasant, duck or hare).

[1] In addition, de Putter painted a number of portraits, in particular of his brother Pieter van Veen's family.

[1] De Putter used a cool and monochrome palette, with a preference for brown, which he enlivened by highlighting the silver and white of the fish scales.