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| | artnet.com: Resource Library: Lint, Pieter van (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-03) |
 | | Before becoming master of the Antwerp Guild of St Luke in 1632, van Lint worked for several years with Artus Wolffort; he recorded their collaboration in his diary (Paris, Fond. |
 | | During these years he frequently copied the more famous paintings in Antwerps churches, not only those by Peter Paul Rubens, but also works by older masters such as Marten de Vos and the Francken brothers. |
 | | His earliest known painting, an Adoration of the Shepherds (1632; Vienna, Salesianerinnenkirche), shows a clear indebtedness to Wolfforts style, which was in the pre-Rubensian, academic manner of Otto van Veen. |
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