Pieter van Gunst

[1][2] The engraver Gilliam van der Gouwen worked for some time as an assistant in his workshop.

[3] His son, Pieter van Gunst Junior, is often confused with his father because he not only shared the same name but also worked as an engraver.

In 1736 he published a series of psalms set to rhyme, CL psalmen des profeeten Davids, a project which took him 18 years to complete.

He also made a series of illustrations for historical treatises by Isaac de Larrey and engravings of drawings by Gerard de Lairesse to illustrate Govert Bidloo's Anatomia Humani Corporis.

These plates were commissioned by a syndicate of British art dealers (Cock, Comyns and McSwiny), who employed Jacob Houbraken to come to Britain in 1713 to make the drawings and van Gunst to engrave them in Amsterdam.