SwissArtGallery · Documented identity
The Flemish painter Pieter Meulener, born and deceased in Antwerp, is distinguished by a body of work that combines battle scenes with landscapes animated by genre scenes. Cavalry engagements are at the heart of his compositions: he depicts, in particular, skirmishes as well as attacks on military convoys and travellers.
The son of the genre painter Jan de Meuleneer and Elizabeth Floris, and grandson of the landscape painter Cornelis Molenaer, he joined the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke in 1631 as a “wijnmeester”, a status reserved for the son or brother of a member. He is said to have married Maria Hendrickx that same year. In the absence of dated works from his early years, he probably first worked in his father’s studio; he is thought to have subsequently set up independently in 1642. At his death in 1654, he is recorded as the father of a twenty-year-old daughter and a fifteen-year-old son.
His works are generally dated and bear the signature “P.MEVLENER”; he also used the monogram “PM”, long attributed to Pieter de Molijn. The diversity of his supports is evident in the 1645 *Landscape with a Dancing Couple*, painted on the decorated lid of an Antwerp harpsichord. He also collaborated with other artists: in a landscape with a cavalry skirmish, he painted the figures while David Teniers the Younger executed the landscape. His works are held, among other institutions, by the Prado, the Hermitage, the Rijksmuseum and the Louvre.
This profile brings together identity references for Pieter Meulener and paintings, drawings and works on paper documented in auction catalogues.
3 references are documented at Dobiaschofsky, Lempertz. Each record links to its source; the amounts are not a general valuation of the artist’s work.
Oil on canvas
Szene aus dem Dreißigjährigen Krieg
Öl auf Leinwand
Auction date : 2016-05-21
Published result : 13640 EUR
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : 12000
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Oil on oak panel
Waldlandschaft mit Figurenstaffage.
Öl auf Eichenholz
Date to be documented
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
View the lot at the auction house ↗Oil on hardboard
Waldlandschaft mit Figurenstaffage.
Öl auf Htf
Date to be documented
Published result : 8000 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 10000
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Documentation updated : 2026-10-19
