GUNST, Pieter Stevens van
(b. ~1658 Amsterdam, d. 1732 Amsterdam)
Dutch printmaker. He was active in Amsterdam; in 1712 he joined the Amsterdam book sellers’ guild as an art dealer.
Van Gunst produced a number of engravings, mainly portraits, including copies of work by Anthony van Dyck. He also made a series of illustrations for historical treatises by Isaac de Larrey and engravings of drawings by Gerard de Lairesse to illustrate Govert Bidloo’s Anatomia Humani Corporis.
Engravings by Van Gunst are in the collection of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam, the British Museum and the National Portrait Gallery in London, among others.
