Piet van Egmond

Dutchman Piet van Egmond was a watercolor painter, graphic artist and oil painter who had been trained in the studio of a Haarlem painter. He worked mainly in Haarlem and made trips to Paris and Chartres for study purposes. His primary motives were flowers, still lifes, landscapes, townscapes, nudes and portraits. After World War II the unemployed artist lived for many years in abject poverty.