Pieter Holsteyn II

Oostindische Raben, or East Indian raven, signed PH fe (Pieter Holsteyn fecit), formerly in the collection of Joh. Enschedé, Haarlem, and possibly one of the birds that Houbraken mentioned in the auction sale of 1706 Pieter Holsteyn (1614, Haarlem – 1673, Haarlem), was a Dutch Golden Age watercolor painter and engraver.

Biography According to Houbraken who called him "Holstein", his father Pieter Holsteyn I was a good glass painter and his brother Cornelis was a good painter. Houbraken quoted Samuel Ampzing who mentioned Holstein together with Johannes Boeckhorst as good glasspainters who painted the scenes of the damiaatjes story in the magistrate's room in the Haarlem City Hall. He worked in Haarlem, Amsterdam, Munster and Enkhuizen and was the teacher of the painter Josua Breckerveld. He signed his works with the monogram "PH". The painter Herman Henstenburgh was influenced by his watercolors.