A plein air landscape painter, Pieter Van Veen traveled and painted in Europe, New England and the American West, having emigrated from Holland to New York City.
He was born in The Hague, Holland, studied there at the Royal Academy of the Arts, and then spent a decade in France, some of the time in Barbizon, studying with Henri Harpignies. In 1929, he earned the Cross of Legion from the French Government for a series of oil paintings of Cathedrals of France.
In 1915, he settled in (showing 500 of 6478 characters). |
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