Pieter van Bloemen, also known as Standaart (1657 – 1720),

• He was a gifted Flemish landscape and animal painter.
• He was very successful with his compositions depicting equestrian, animal and market scenes.
• A prolific painter, van Bloemen was at his best painting animals, although he also produced a wide range of landscape, genre, equestrian, military and history scenes.
• He was the teacher of his younger brothers Jan Frans and Norbert as well as of Peeter van Aken and Frans van Alter.
• He died in Antwerp.
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