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Pieter Post began his career in Haarlem as a painter. Several of his paintings from the 1630s - landscapes and battle scenes - are known but they are not significant. His work as an architect, on the other hand, is one of the high-spots of classicism in Holland. He came into contact with architecture from the mid-1630s, when he assisted Jacob van Campen with the construction of the Mauritshuis. In 1645 he was appointed 'architect and painter' to Frederik Hendrik, and the lion's share of his work for the court was as an architect.
Post worked with sculptors on certain projects. The Weigh-house (De Waag in Dutch) in Leiden was built in 1657-59 after Post's design. Post provided the preliminary sketches for the central marble relief in the façade to be worked out in more detail by the sculptor Rombout Verhulst. For centuries, merchants came to the weigh-house to weigh and trade a variety of goods.
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