Pieter van Laer. Pieter Bodding van Laer was a Dutch painter and printmaker.
He was active in Rome for over a decade and was known for genre scenes, animal paintings and landscapes placed in the environs of Rome. Pieter van Laer was an active member of the association of Flemish and Dutch artists in Rome known as the Bentvueghels.
His nickname in this group was Il Bamboccio. The style of genre painting he introduced was followed by other Northern and Italian painters.
These followers became known as the Bamboccianti and a painting in this style as a Bambocciata, or Bambochades. Pieter van Laer was born in Haarlem as the second child of Jacob Claesz.
Boddingh of Haarlem and Magdalena Heyns of Antwerp. He adopted the surname van Laer only later in life. This surname was probably taken from his brother's godfather. He came from a well to do family and his parents operated a private school in Haarlem started by Magdalena's father, the well-known writer and publisher Peeter Heyns, after whom Pieter van Laer was named. His older brother was Roedolff van Laer, who also became a painter and was known as Roeland van Laer and Orlando van Laer. His youngest brother Nicolaes Bodding became known later in life as Nicolaes Boddingius and was a prominent schoolmaster and minister. Van Lear shared a home in the Via Margutta with Giovanni di Filippo del Camp, whose pupil he is said to have been. Pieter van Laer
He was active in Rome for over a decade and was known for genre scenes, animal paintings and landscapes placed in the environs of Rome. Pieter van Laer was an active member of the association of Flemish and Dutch artists in Rome known as the Bentvueghels.
His nickname in this group was Il Bamboccio. The style of genre painting he introduced was followed by other Northern and Italian painters.
These followers became known as the Bamboccianti and a painting in this style as a Bambocciata, or Bambochades. Pieter van Laer was born in Haarlem as the second child of Jacob Claesz.
Boddingh of Haarlem and Magdalena Heyns of Antwerp. He adopted the surname van Laer only later in life. This surname was probably taken from his brother's godfather. He came from a well to do family and his parents operated a private school in Haarlem started by Magdalena's father, the well-known writer and publisher Peeter Heyns, after whom Pieter van Laer was named. His older brother was Roedolff van Laer, who also became a painter and was known as Roeland van Laer and Orlando van Laer. His youngest brother Nicolaes Bodding became known later in life as Nicolaes Boddingius and was a prominent schoolmaster and minister. Van Lear shared a home in the Via Margutta with Giovanni di Filippo del Camp, whose pupil he is said to have been. Pieter van Laer
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