Pieter Van Havermaet

Pieter Van Havermaet or Petrus Van Havermaet, known in his time as P. Van Havermaet was a Belgian draughtsman, painter and art educator. He is mainly known for his portraits and genre portraits. After first training in his native Sint-Niklaas he spent the rest of his career in Antwerp with intermittent periods of work in London where he made portraits of prominent individuals such as Benjamin Disraeli and Sir George Elliot.