deaths
March 24, 1684
Pieter de Hooch, Dutch painter (born 1629)
Pieter de Hooch
Pieter Hendricksz. de Hooch, was a Dutch Golden Age painter famous for his genre works of quiet domestic scenes with an open doorway. He was a contemporary, in the Delft Guild of St. Luke, of Jan Vermeer with whom his work shares themes and style. De Hooch was first recorded in Delft on 5 August 1652, when he and another painter, Hendrick van der Burgh witnessed the signing of a will. He was active in 1683, but his date of death is unknown.
March 24
March 24 is the 83rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 282 days remain until the end of the year.