Barbiers

Barbiers is not documented as a commercial brand in the referenced material. Rather, it is a surname associated with a prominent Dutch family of artists active mainly from the eighteenth through the nineteenth centuries. The family included painters and other artists whose careers were connected through parentage, marriage, and artistic inheritance. Several members carried the given name Pieter or Bartholomeus, which has led to the use of numbered identifiers in historical references to distinguish relatives across generations. The family’s documented artistic activity spans multiple generations, beginning with Pieter Barbiers, who lived from 1717 to 1780, and continuing through descendants and related artists into the mid-nineteenth century. The family network also included Maria Geertruida Barbiers-Snabilié and Maria Geertruida Barbiers, demonstrating that the artistic lineage was not limited to male members. Because the available reference material treats Barbiers as a family of artists rather than as a consumer, corporate, or professional-services brand, information such as products, commercial positioning, ownership, headquarters, financial performance, and current operations is not applicable or not established. This entry therefore records the subject as the Barbiers artist family described by the authoritative Wikipedia path, without conflating it with unrelated businesses or individuals using the same surname.

The Barbiers name is associated with a large Dutch family of artists whose members worked across several generations. The documented lineage begins with Pieter Barbiers, who lived between 1717 and 1780. He is identified as the father of Pieter Pietersz Barbiers and Bartholomeus Barbiers, establishing the family’s first clearly recorded artistic generation in the available material. The repeated use of the names Pieter and Bartholomeus among descendants makes genealogical distinctions important when discussing the family. Pieter Pietersz Barbiers lived from 1749 to 1842 and is identified as the son of Pieter Barbiers. His generation was followed by several artists carrying the Barbiers surname. Bartholomeus Barbiers, identified as Bartholomeus I, lived from 1743 to 1808 and was another son of Pieter Barbiers. His son, Pieter Bartholomeusz Barbiers, identified as Pieter III, lived from 1771 to 1837. The family’s artistic continuity consequently extended from the eighteenth century into the early nineteenth century. The family network also included Bartholomeus Barbiers II, who lived from 1784 to 1816 and is identified as the son of Pieter Pietersz Barbiers. This overlapping set of generations illustrates why the family members are often differentiated with Roman numerals or generational labels. The available source does not provide a complete account of their individual media, major works, training, institutions, or artistic movements, so those details are not expanded here. Marriage connected the Barbiers family to another artistic lineage. Maria Geertruida Barbiers-Snabilié, who lived from 1776 to 1838, was the wife of Pieter Bartholomeusz Barbiers. Their children included Pieter Barbiers IV, who lived from 1798 to 1848, and Maria Geertruida Barbiers, who lived from 1801 to 1849. Maria Geertruida Barbiers later married the painter Pieter de Goeje, who lived from 1789 to 1859. These relationships show that the family’s artistic identity extended through both descent and marriage. The referenced Wikipedia material presents Barbiers primarily as a family of artists, not as a unified business, brand, institution, or continuously operating organization. Accordingly, there is no established founding event, corporate ownership structure, headquarters, product portfolio, campaign history, executive team, or present-day commercial status to document. The subject should not be redirected to unrelated entities or more famous namesakes using the word Barbiers.

• 1801

  Birth of Maria Geertruida Barbiers

  [1]Barbiersen.wikipedia.org

  Maria Geertruida Barbiers, daughter of Pieter Bartholomeusz Barbiers and Maria Geertruida Barbiers-Snabilié, was born.

• 1798

  Birth of Pieter Barbiers IV

  [1]Barbiersen.wikipedia.org

  Pieter Barbiers IV, a later-generation artist and child of Pieter Bartholomeusz Barbiers and Maria Geertruida Barbiers-Snabilié, was born.

• 1784

  Birth of Bartholomeus Barbiers II

  [1]Barbiersen.wikipedia.org

  Bartholomeus Barbiers II, identified as the son of Pieter Pietersz Barbiers, was born.

• 1776

  Birth of Maria Geertruida Barbiers-Snabilié

  [1]Barbiersen.wikipedia.org

  Maria Geertruida Barbiers-Snabilié, later associated with the Barbiers family through her marriage to Pieter Bartholomeusz Barbiers, was born.

• 1771

  Birth of Pieter Bartholomeusz Barbiers

  [1]Barbiersen.wikipedia.org

  Pieter Bartholomeusz Barbiers, also identified as Pieter III, was born to the Barbiers artistic lineage.

• 1749

  Birth of Pieter Pietersz Barbiers

  [1]Barbiersen.wikipedia.org

  Pieter Pietersz Barbiers, son of Pieter Barbiers and a later member of the artistic family, was born.

• 1743

  Birth of Bartholomeus Barbiers I

  [1]Barbiersen.wikipedia.org

  Bartholomeus Barbiers I, one of Pieter Barbiers’s sons and a member of the family’s second documented generation, was born.

• 1717

  Birth of Pieter Barbiers

  [1]Barbiersen.wikipedia.org

  Pieter Barbiers, regarded in the family genealogy as an early recorded artist and the father of later Barbiers artists, was born.

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