Pieter I Schenck
(1660–1718) German engraver and cartographer (1660-1718)
Pieter I Schenck (Germany, 1660–1718) is listed in the catalogue as a painter and a printmaker. By year of birth, Pieter I Schenck belongs to the chapter ‘The Baroque’ in this site’s history of art.
Pieter I Schenck was born in Elberfeld and died in Leipzig. Pieter I Schenck studied under Gerard Valck. Pieter I Schenck worked in Amsterdam, Schagen, Leipzig, and Wuppertal. Pieter I Schenck became a member of Petrum Schenk and Gerardum Valk.
The works belong mainly to the genres portrait and landscape painting. The catalogue has 27 works by Pieter I Schenck with free images. The dated works span the years 1690–1713. Works by Pieter I Schenck are held by Yale Center for British Art, Musea Brugge, Prints in the National Gallery of Art, and Welsh Portrait Collection.
Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Philipp Peter Roos, Franz Werner von Tamm, John Closterman, Jerzy Siemiginowski-Eleuter, and Ernst Stuven.