Pieter Adrianus Schipperus was born in Rotterdam on 6 March 1840, he died in The Hague on 4 October 1929. He lived and worked in Rotterdam and from 1910 in The Hague. He also worked in the region of Haarlem and Zuid-Limbrug.

Schipperus was a self-taught painter. Initially a trader, he obtained a grant from King William III at the age of 32, which enabled him to devote himself entirely to painting. He was a painter of riverscapes, forests and landscapes.

He also was an etcher and lithographer. Schipper taught at the Rotterdamse Akademie voor Beeldende Kunsten. Among his students were P. Been, W. de Haas Hemken and A. van der Wissel.

In 1879 he became a member of “Arti et Amicitiae” in Amsterdam and “Pulchri Studio” in The Hague. He exhibited in Amsterdam, The Hague, Rotterdam between 1865 and 1903.

His work can be found in the Teylers Stichting Haarlem, Rijksprentenkabinet Amsterdam, Rijksprentenkabinet Leiden, Gemeentearchief Haarlem, Museum Boymans van Beuningen Rotterdam, Centraal Museum Utrecht, Zeeuws Museum Middelburg, Frans Halsmuseum Haarlem and Rijksmuseum “Zuiderzeemuseum” Enkhuizen.