Nicolaas Piemont

Nicolaes Piemont (1644, Amsterdam – 1709, Vollenhove), was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter who travelled to Rome in the 1670s.

Biography

According to Houbraken Nicolaas Piemont was a member of the Bentvueghels with the nickname "Opgang" who signed Abraham Genoels's bentbrief in Rome in 1674.^[1]

According to the RKD he was nicknamed "Opgang" and was known for Italianate landscapes.^[2] This painter made some paintings in the dollhouse of Petronella Oortman (in the collection of the Rijksmuseum today), together with the painters Willem Frederiksz van Royen and Johannes Voorhout.^[2] Piemont's contributions were Italianate landscapes on the walls of the parlour in the dollhouse, one side of which was interrupted by a miniature hearth, of which the intricate decorative mantelpiece was painted on in a different (unspecified) hand.^[3]

References

1. ^ (Dutch) Nicolaes Piemont Biography in De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature
2. ^ ^{a b} Nicolaes Piemont in the RKD
3. ^ Salon of Petronella Oortman's dollhouse on the website of the Rijksmuseum

• Nicolaes Piemont on Artnet

Persondata
Name	Piemont, Nicolaes
Alternative names	Nicolaas Pimont, Opgang
Short description	Dutch Golden Age painter
Date of birth	1644
Place of birth	Amsterdam
Date of death	1709
Place of death	Vollenhove