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POTTER, Paulus
Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1625-1654
Son of Pieter Potter. He was related through his mother, Aechtie Pouwels (d 1636), to the wealthy and powerful von Egmont and Semeyns families, who held important offices in Enkhuizen and at the court in The Hague. He worked in his father's studio in Amsterdam during the 1630s and, like him, painted history subjects that show the strong influence of Claes Moeyaert, with whom Paulus may also have studied. In the painting Abraham Returning from Canaan he adapted the landscape setting from an etching by Moses van Uyttenbroeck and the figures from works by Moeyaert from over ten years earlier. Significantly, however, he redistributed the numerous animals and figures that Moeyaert had aligned evenly across the frontal plane; Potter placed them to one side, permitting a view into the deep distance where other animals can be seen. Potter followed his father more than Moeyaert in searching for ways to integrate his figures with the landscape,
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Painting ID:: 8593
Resting Herd a
1652
Oil on oak, 35,5 x 46,5 cm
Gemäldegalerie, Dresden
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Painting ID:: 8594
Landscape with Shepherdess and Shepherd Playing Flute af
1642-44
Oil on wood, 67 x 114,5 cm
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
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Painting ID:: 8595
Landscape with Shepherdess Shepherd Playing Flute (detail) ad
1642-44
Oil on wood
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
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Painting ID:: 8596
The Spotted Horse af
Oil on wood, 30 x 41 cm
Mus??e du Louvre, Paris
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Painting ID:: 8597
The Farm af
1649
Oil on panel, 81 x 116 cm
The Hermitage, St. Petersburg
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POTTER, Paulus
Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1625-1654
Son of Pieter Potter. He was related through his mother, Aechtie Pouwels (d 1636), to the wealthy and powerful von Egmont and Semeyns families, who held important offices in Enkhuizen and at the court in The Hague. He worked in his father's studio in Amsterdam during the 1630s and, like him, painted history subjects that show the strong influence of Claes Moeyaert, with whom Paulus may also have studied. In the painting Abraham Returning from Canaan he adapted the landscape setting from an etching by Moses van Uyttenbroeck and the figures from works by Moeyaert from over ten years earlier. Significantly, however, he redistributed the numerous animals and figures that Moeyaert had aligned evenly across the frontal plane; Potter placed them to one side, permitting a view into the deep distance where other animals can be seen. Potter followed his father more than Moeyaert in searching for ways to integrate his figures with the landscape,
. Related Artists to POTTER, Paulus: | Parton, Ernest | Thomas Stothard | John Arsenius | Vasilii Dmitrievich Polenov | William Holyoake |
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