Discover painter, draftsperson, print artist Paulus Potter

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: Potter, Paulus Pietersz.
Potter, Pouwels

Qualifications: painter, draftsperson, print artist

Nationality/school: North Netherlandish

Born: Enkhuizen (place) 1625-11/1625-11-20
baptized on 20 November 1625 in the Reformed Church of Enkhuizen

Deceased: Amsterdam (city) 1654-01/1654-01-17
buried on 17 January 1654 in Nieuwezijds Chapel in Amsterdam

Family relationships this field records any family relationship to one or more other artist(s).: son of Pieter Symonsz. Potter (ca.1599-1652) and Aecht Pouwels Bartius (1599-1652). His mother was a descendant through her mother (Freekje Meinderts Smeyns) of the powerful Counts of Egmond (Walsh 1985/1991, p. 20). Married in The Hague on 3rd July 1650 Adriana van Balckeneynde (1627-1690, with whom he made a will on 2 January 1653 (De Vries 1885). None of their childeren reached adulthood.

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213 hits in RKDimages as artist
20 hits in RKDlibrary as subject
1 hit in RKDlibrary as illustrator
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Biographical information

Period of activity: 1641 - 1654
earliest dated works in 1641 (Buijsen 1998, p. 225)

Active in

Amsterdam (stad) 1631 - 1646
In 1631 he moved with his parents to Amsterdam. Probably home-trained by his father, then with Claes Moeyaert
Haarlem (stad) 1642
Apprentice with Jacob de Wet: in a sketchbook of Jacob de Wet it is noted that Paulus Potter had paid eight pounds on 12 May 1642 to follow De Wet's painting lessons (Walsh 1994/95, p. 11)
Delft (stad) 1646
On 6 August 1646 he became a member of the painters' guild in Delfts as a master-painter. The amount he had to pay points to the fact that he came from outside the city (Walsh 1994/95, p. 12). Uncertain if he lived in Delft though (Buijsen/Dumas et al. 1998)
Den Haag (stad) 1649 - 1652
in or before 1649; in 1649 enrolled as master-painter in the painters' guild, two years after his father had settled in The Hague. Since 1649 he lived on Dunne Bierkade 17, a property rented of Jan van Goyen (Walsh 1994/95, p. 12). On 3 July 1650 he married with Adriana van Balckeneynde (Walsh 1994/95, p. 13).
Amsterdam (stad) 1652 - 1654
Nicolaes Tulp lured him to Amsterdam to paint for him with guarantees of his favour, so that he and his family went to Amsterdam on 1st May 1652. There he lived until his death (Houbraken 1719).

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Connections with other artists

Pupil of This field mentions the names of teachers or masters. What is at issue are the teachers who made a significant contribution to the development of a students, as opposed to every instructor they ever had. See also the 'Education' field.: Moeyaert, Claes
Potter, Pieter
Wet, Jacob de (I)
Claes Moeyaert was possibly his second teacher in Amsterdam (Buijsen/Dumas et al. 1998, p. 225);
Teacher of This field mentions the names of pupils. What is at issue are the pupils who were significantly influenced by a teacher as opposed to every student someone ever had. See also the 'Education' field.: Ducq, Johan le
Petit, Barend le
Followed by This field mentions the artist’s emulators. Although students can naturally also be followers, they are not mentioned again here. What is meant by followers are those who continue to work in the spirit of a predecessor. Sometimes this may happen a century later; there is no time limit. What is at issue, however, is that someone’s oeuvre must substantially follow in the manner of the artist emulated.: Bidauld, Joseph
Borssom, Anthonie van
Gebauer, Christian David
Hanson, Emilie M.
Kuntz, Rudolf
Thier, Barend Hendrik
Thomas, Frederic George
Wagenbauer, Max Josef
Worrell, Abraham Bruinings van
Influence on This field specifies the artists influenced by the artist in question, without there being question of an educational setting or servile following.: Bachelier, Jean-Jacques
Bokenes, H.
Bonheur, Rosa
Brascassat, Jacques Raymond
Burnet, James
Camphuysen, Govert
Cooper, Thomas Sidney
Corbould, Aster R.C.
Denis, Simon
Gauermann, Friedrich
Huber, Jean Daniel
Kobell, Jan (II)
Lundbye, Johan Thomas
Morland, George
Ommeganck, Balthasar Paul
Rive, Pierre Louis de la
Roy, Jean Baptiste de
Schweickhardt, Hendrik Willem
Ward, James (1769-1859)
Burnet, John
Velde, Adriaen van de

Subjects This field specifies the various subject categories or genres that constitute the oeuvre of the artist in question. The contents of this field are generally based more on the documentation available at the RKD than on the literature.: peasant genre, animal painting (genre), history (genre), hunting scene, landscape (genre), architecture (genre)

Medium/technique: oil paint

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Literature

Literature in RKDLibrary: 20 hits in RKDlibrary as subject

Houbraken 1718-1721 , vol. 2 (1719), p. 125-132, p. 3 (1721), p. 274 (Houbraken was well informed by Nicolaes van Reenen (1662-1728), son from the 2nd marriage of Potter's widow Adriana.)
Weyerman 1729-1769
Obreen 1877-1890 , Obreen vol. 2 (1879-1880), p. 139-140 ('De schilder de Potter en de advokaat Walbeeck')
Hofstede de Groot 1907-1928 (German edition) , vol. 4 (1911), p. 609-698
Hofstede de Groot 1907-1927 (English edition) , vol. 4 (1911), p. 582-670
Granberg 1929-1931 , vol. 2, p. 62
Thieme/Becker 1907-1950 , vol. 27 (1933), p. 306-307
Waller 1938/1974 , p. 260
Hollstein et al. 1949-2010 , vol. 17 [1976], p. 211-224
The Illustrated Bartsch (1978-) , vol. 1 (1978), p. 37-55
Witt Checklist 1978
Montias 1982 , p. 102, 178, 181, 254, 342
Sutton/Blankert 1987 , p. 416-422
Briels 1987
Boschma/Grijzenhout 1988 (J. Hoes, ''Het vee zoals het is en niet anders'. De reputatie van Paulus Potter (1625-1654')
Walsh et al. 1994 , p. 10-19 (A. Walsh, 'Het leven van Paulus Potter (1625-1654)')
Buijsen/Dumas et al. 1998 , p. 224-229, 338
Jonkman/Geudeker 2010 , p. 41 and passim
Stolk 2014A , p. 191-200
Horn/Van Leeuwen 2021 [Houbraken Translated]

'Een paar woorden over Paulus Potter', Kunstkronijk 14 (1853), p. 14-17
A.D. de Vries Azn., 'Biografische aanteekeningen betreffende voornamelijk Amsterdamsche schilders, plaatsnijders, enz. en hunne verwanten' (IV), Oud-Holland 3 (1885), p. 303-312; p. 308
O. Granberg, 'Une revue d'art du XVIIe siècle', Oud-Holland 4 (1886), p. 268-271
E.L. Allhusen, 'The etchings of Paul Potter', The Print Collector’s Quarterly 26 (1939), p. 209-223
E.L. Allhusen, 'Catalogue of the etchings of Paul Potter, Compiled from the catalogues of Bartsch, Duplessis and Dutuit', The Print Collector’s Quarterly 26 (1939), p. 335-347
J. Verbeek, 'Vroege staten van etsen van Paulus Potter (1625-1654)', Antiek 10 (1974), p. 854-861
S.A.C. Dudok van Heel, 'De remonstrantse wereld van Rembrandts opdrachtgever Abraham Anthoniszn de Recht', Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum 42 (1994), p. 334-346, 340
J. Bolten, 'Paulus Potter', Delineavit et Sculpsit no. 15, May 1995, p. 38
I. Verslype, 'A preliminary study on Paulus Potter's (1625-1654) painting technique', ArtMatters 3 (2005), p. 97-110
H. de Vuillefroy de Silly, 'Critiques et postérité française du jeune Taureau de Paulus Potter (1625-1654) au XIXe siècle', Les Cahiers d'Histoire de l'Art (2014), no. 12, p. 71-75
Q. Buvelot, 'A newly discovered letter to Arnold Houbraken on the life of Paulus Potter', The Burlington Magazine 147 (2015), no. 1343, p. 92-96
F. Grijzenhout, 'Potter's Bull: an heirloom and a gift', Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art 13:1 (Winter 2021)

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Archive location: archief Le Roy
collectie RKD Brieven, handschriften en kleine archieven
Project: Gerson Digital : Sweden

External links: this artist in Ecartico

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Creation date: 1992-01-24; Last modified date: 2023-09-05

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