Pieter Coopse or Pieter Jansz. Coops (c. 1640–1673), was a Dutch Golden Age seascape painter and draughtsman from Hoorn in the Northern Netherlands. According to the RKD (Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie, a.k.a. Netherlands Institute for Art History'), he was a pupil of the seascape painter Ludolf Bakhuizen who resided at Hoorn in 1662–1663. He signed his name P.Coopse, sometimes with a second initial J for Jansz, but he seldom added a date. He painted marine subjects and landscapes, in the manner of Bakhuisen and Van de Velde, flourished about the year 1672. His pictures are generally of a small size, well composed, full of subject, and vigorouslypainted. There is a picture by him in the Gallery at Munich, which is attributed to Bakhuisen in the catalogue, though the name ma