Pieter Christoffel Wonder

Pieter Christoffel Wonder (Jan 10, 1780 - 1852) was a Dutch painter, active in England.

Wonder was self-taught, although between 1802 and 1804 he did attend classes at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. In 1807 he established the Kunstliefde Society in Utrecht together with other artists including Jan Kobell. Wonder primarily painted portraits, although he also painted some interior scenes in imitation of the Dutch 17th-century masters.

Pieter Christoffel Wonder followed a short scholarship course at the Düsseldorf Academy. He was also largely autodidact as a painter and taught the subject by copying painters like Van Dijck and Rubens. In 1807 he was co-founder (together with the painter Jan Baptist Kobell) of the association Kunstliefde in Utrecht, of which he also became director. From 1823 to 1831 he painted in England, where he made his name as a portrait painter and photographer of Raphael.

Werk van Wonder is located in the Amsterdam Rijksmuseum, in the Utrecht Central Museum, in the Gemeentemuseum The Hague, in the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, in the Dordrechts Museum, at the University Museum Utrecht and in the Zeeuws maritime muZEEum.

A selection from Pieter Christoffel's work Wonder:
De Tijd, (1810), (Rijksmuseum)
Portrait of Jacob van Strij, (1812), (Dordrecht Museum)
Portrait of Abraham van Strij, (1812), (Dordrecht Museum)
Portrait of Martinus Schouman (1812), (Dordrechts Museum)
Portrait of Professor Jan Bleuland, (University Museum Utrecht)
Portrait of Philip Willem van Heusde
Portrait of Constantia barones Lampsins (1807), (Zeeuws maritime muZEEum, Vlissingen)
Young woman giving flowers water
Family portrait de Bruyn de Neve
Woman with scale at water pump
Portrait of Jan Otto van Beek (1816-1898)
The stairwell of the London home of the painter (1828)
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