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{{short description|Dutch painter}}
{{dablink|Pieter Post is also the Dutch name of [[Postman Pat]].}}▼
[[Image:Caesar van Everdingen Count Willem II of Holland Granting Privileges.jpg|thumb|220px|''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]].]]▼
[[image:Pieter Post (1608-1669), portrait by Pieter Nolpe.png|thumb|Pieter Post in 1651. Portrait by Pieter Nolpe, detail of a larger work]]
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'''Pieter Jansz Post''' (1 May 1608 – buried 8 May 1669) was a [[Dutch Golden Age]] [[architect]], [[Painting|painter]] and [[printmaker]].
==Biography==
Post was baptised in [[Haarlem]], 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|
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>[
His son [[Maurits Post|Maurits]] became an architect, and his son Johan Post 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.
==Architectural work==
*1642
*1643 Huis Prinsessegracht 4 (the Hague)
*1645-1650 [[Huis ten Bosch]] (the Hague)
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*1655 Johan de Witt Huis, (the Hague)
*1657-1658 [[Weigh House (Leiden)|De Waag]], [[Leiden]]
*1659-1685
*1659-1662 Kruithuis, [[Delft]]
*1660 Hofje van Nieuwkoop (Den Haag),
*1661-1662 Torendeel van Lambertuskerk in Buren
*1662-1665
*1662-1680 Hervormde Kerk, [[Bennebroek]]
*1663 Kerk van [[Stompetoren]]
*1667 [[Oostkerk, Middelburg]], [[Middelburg, Zeeland]]
*1668- Kaaswaag, [[Gouda, South Holland|Gouda]]
==Gallery==
<gallery>
File:
File:
File:Waag Leiden.jpg|De Waag Leiden
File:Gouda waaggebouw februari 2003.jpg|Kaaswaag Gouda
File:Den Haag - Prinsegracht 15.JPG|Dedel House (Huis Dedel) at Prinsegracht 15 in The Hague
File:Huis Zwanenburg te Halfweg 20090927.jpg|[[Gemeenlandshuis Zwanenburg]], former seat of the ''[[Hoogheemraadschap van Rijnland]]'' waterboard, in [[Halfweg]]
File:Hofje van
File:Bennebroek-hervormde kerk.jpg|Dutch Reformed church of [[Bennebroek]], which was finished posthumously in 1680.
Image:DelftscheZwervers.jpg|One of the "towers" of the "Kruithuis" in Delft
File:Maastricht 2010-30-03 – Stadthaus am Markt - panoramio (cropped).jpg|[[Maastricht]] city hall, considered Post's most accomplished work. After a drawing by Pieter Post
</gallery>
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==External links==
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*[http://www.artnet.com/artist/568163/pieter-jansz-post.html Pieter Post] on [[Artnet]]
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