PIERSON, Christoffel
(b. 1631 Den Haag, d. 1714 Gouda)
Dutch painter. He was a student of Bartholomeus Meyburgh (c. 1628-c. 1729), who was only three years older than him and with whom he travelled to Germany. Pierson had established himself in Gouda by 1654 and spent the remainder of his career there, barring an interlude between 1679 and 1691 in Schiedam, marrying a native of this city and registering in the Guild of Saint Luke there in 1685.
Pierson, who was known as a glass-painter as well as a painter of portraits and still-lifes, restored the windows of the famous Sint-Janskerk in Gouda in 1695.
