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Peeter van Aelst

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General referenceInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 7, 2014
Entity authorityQ19927666 ↗
Source-derived summary

Peter van Aelst, Peeter van Aelst or Pieter van Aelst is the name of a number of artists including:

Pieter Coecke van Aelst, a Flemish painter of the 16th century

Peeter van Aelst, a 17th-century Dutch still life painter referred to by Cornelis de Bie in his Het Gulden Cabinet

Pieter van Aelst, a 17th-century Flemish genre painter active in Antwerp from 1644 to 1654.

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“Peeter van Aelst” enters the record as wikimedia disambiguation page. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Peeter, Aelst and Wikimedia can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1644, 1654—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Peeter, Aelst and Wikimedia.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 7, 2014. The linked authority identifier is Q19927666. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1644 and 1654.

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This entry incorporates text from “Peeter van Aelst” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.