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{{dablink|Pieter Post is also the Dutch name of [[Postman Pat]].}}▼

[[File:Den Haag - Huis Ten Bosch 1900.jpg|thumb|right|[[Huis ten Bosch]] (the Hague), built 1645-1650]]▼

[[Image:Caesar van Everdingen Count Willem II of Holland Granting Privileges.jpg|right|thumb|''Count [[William II of Holland]] Granting Privileges in 1255 to the local Dike-wardens of [[Spaarndam]]'' by [[Caesar van Everdingen]] (figures) and Pieter Post (architectural elements), 1654, originally commissioned for the Gemeenlandshuis Zwanenburg and today in the collection of the [[Gemeenlandshuis van Rijnland]] in [[Leiden]].]]▼

'''Pieter Jansz Post''' (baptised May 1, 1608, [[Haarlem]] – buried May 8, 1669, [[The Hague]]) was a [[Dutch Golden Age]] [[architect]], [[Painting|painter]] and [[printmaker]]. ▼

==Biography==▼

Post was the son of a [[stained-glass]] painter and the older brother of painter [[Frans Post]].<ref>{{cite web| title=The Getty: Pieter Post| url=http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artMakerDetails?maker=752&page=1|accessdate=October 24, 2006 |archiveurl = http://web.archive.org/web/20061213092222/http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artMakerDetails?maker=752&page=1 <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archivedate = December 13, 2006}}</ref> He is credited with the creation of the ''Dutch [[baroque]]'' style of architecture, along with his longtime collaborator [[Jacob van Campen]]. Together they designed the [[Mauritshuis]] in the Hague.<ref>{{citeweb|title=Post, Pieter &mdash; Encyclopædia Britannica|url=http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9061034/Pieter-Post|accessdate=October 24, 2006}}</ref>▼

According to the RKD he became a member of the [[Haarlem Guild of St. Luke]] in 1623, and became painter and architect for [[Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange|Stadhouder Frederik Hendrik]].<ref name=RKD>[http://www.rkd.nl/rkddb/dispatcher.aspx?action=search&database=ChoiceArtists&search=priref=64427 Pieter Post] in the [[RKD]]</ref> He was the overseer from 1640 for the new additions to [[Paleis Noordeinde]] in The Hague.<ref name=RKD/> From 1645 he was the architect for Frederik Hendrik for [[Huis ten Bosch]], where he worked together with Jacob van Campen.<ref name=RKD/>▼

His son Johan Post also became a painter,<ref name=RKD/> and his daughter married the anatomist and collector [[Frederik Ruysch]]. His granddaughter [[Rachel Ruysch]] became a famous flower painter.▼

*1642 Huis Dedel, [[The Hague]]▼