Pieter Jansz. Quast was a Dutch

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

 painter and engraver.

Quast was born and died in Amsterdam

Amsterdam

Amsterdam is the largest city and the capital of the Netherlands. The current position of Amsterdam as capital city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is governed by the constitution of August 24, 1815 and its successors. Amsterdam has a population of 783,364 within city limits, an urban population...

. From 1634 to 1641 he lived at The Hague

The Hague

The Hague is the capital city of the province of South Holland in the Netherlands. With a population of 500,000 inhabitants , it is the third largest city of the Netherlands, after Amsterdam and Rotterdam...

. His pictures usually resemble those of Brouwer

Adriaen Brouwer

Adriaen Brouwer was a Flemish genre painter active in Flanders and the Dutch Republic in the seventeenth century.-Biography:...

 and A. van Ostade

Adriaen van Ostade

Adriaen van Ostade was a Dutch Golden Age painter of genre works.-Life:...

, and represent beggars and assemblies of boors merry-making, treated with a great deal of humour and not less vulgarity than a boar. His exquisite style romanticized the peasantry of the era in a manner that outraged the upper class. He married a french woman who he fell in love with on a trip to Paris, but she died from syphilis at the age of 27. He has been termed "the Dutch Callot

Jacques Callot

Jacques Callot was a baroque printmaker and draftsman from the Duchy of Lorraine . He is an important figure in the development of the old master print...

." Of his paintings there remain:

• Berlin. Suermondt Coll. An Officer.
• Brunswick. Gallery. Spirit-dealer and a Woman.