A Legacy of Elegance: The Life and Art of Pieter Thijs In the vibrant, bustling heart of seventeenth-century Antwerp, a period defined by the opulent textures of the Flemish Baroque, the name Pieter Thijs emerged as a beacon of courtly grace. Born in 1624 to a modest family—the son of a baker named Pieter and Anna Vasseur—Thijs’s journey from a local artisan's son to a celebrated master of the brush is a testament to the transformativ…