Quast, Pieter
(
b
?Amsterdam,
c.
1606;
bur
. Amsterdam, 29 May 1647). Dutch painter and draughtsman, active in Amsterdam and The Hague. He is best known for peasant
genre
scenes in the manner of
Brouwer
and Adriaen van
Ostade
, but he also painted more refined types in ‘merry companies’, as well as theatrical subjects (which are fairly rare in Dutch art). Sometimes he combined elegant and peasant ...