Pieter van Gunst
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Pieter Stevensz. van Gunst (1658/9, Amsterdam - buried 10 November 1732, Amsterdam), also known as Pieter Stevens van Gunst or Petrus Stephani, was a Dutch draughtsman, copperplate engraver and printmaker active in Amsterdam, London (1704), and the Dutch town of Nederhorst (1730-1731).[1][full citation needed]
Not much is known of his life. He was born in Amsterdam in 1658 or 1659 as the son of Steven Hesselsz and Judith Sieuwerts. In 1687 he married in Amsterdam one Leonora Baarselmans from The Hague. In 1712 he joined the Amsterdam book sellers' guild as an art dealer. He was buried on 10 November 1732 in the Westerkerk church in Amsterdam.[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. The son was also a poet. 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.[4] A second son called Philipp van Gunst was an etcher/engraver.[1]
