Pieter de Smeth van Alphen, heer van Alphen en Rietveld

Dutch art collector, merchant and banker in Amsterdam in the family business Firma Raymond and Theodoor de Smeth and Co. He was also a commissioner (1775) and alderman (1781) in Amsterdam. He was director of the Moscovian Trade in 1782 and also provost archidiacon of the Dom chapter in Utrecht. See more: Meerman, Laurens. “An unwritten chapter of Dutch collecting history: the painting collection of Pieter de Smeth van Alphen (1753-1809)”, Simiolus: Netherlands Quarterly for the History of Art, vol. 40, 2018, pp. 18-98.