Pieter Claesz Soutman (1593-1601 – 16 August 1657)
[Pieter Claesz. Soutman]
in the RKD was a
Dutch Golden Age
The Dutch Golden Age ( nl, Gouden Eeuw ) was a period in the history of the Netherlands, roughly spanning the era from 1588 (the birth of the Dutch Republic) to 1672 (the Rampjaar, "Disaster Year"), in which Dutch trade, science, and Dutch art, ...
painter and
printmaker
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from Haarlem.
Biography
Soutman was born and died in
Haarlem
Haarlem (; predecessor of ''Harlem'' in English) is a city and municipality in the Netherlands. It is the capital of the province of North Holland. Haarlem is situated at the northern edge of the Randstad, one of the most populated metropoli ...
, where he was a contemporary of
Frans Hals
Frans Hals the Elder (, , ; – 26 August 1666) was a Dutch Golden Age painter, chiefly of individual and group portraits and of genre works, who lived and worked in Haarlem.
Hals played an important role in the evolution of 17th-century group ...
,
Hendrick Gerritsz Pot, and
Pieter Claesz, and seems to have been influenced by all three, considering the various attributions of his paintings through the centuries. According to the RKD, he was the youngest of six children of the wealthy Catholic owner of the Haarlem beer brewery ''De Werelt''.
[
According to Houbraken, Soutmann trained with Peter Paul Rubens in ]Antwerp
Antwerp (; nl, Antwerpen ; french: Anvers ; es, Amberes) is the largest city in Belgium by area at and the capital of Antwerp Province in the Flemish Region. With a population of 520,504, . He must have been successful, because Samuel Ampzing
Samuel Ampzing (24 June 1590 – 29 July 1632) was a Dutch minister, poet and purist.
Biography
Born to the minister Johannes Ampzing in Haarlem, in 1616 Samuel became a minister himself at Rijsoord in Strevelshoek, and in 1619 at the Sint-B ...
mentions him in his poem about Haarlem.[Ampzing states he became the painter of the Prussian majesty due to his fame:Hoe zou hier ook de naam van Soutman zyn verzwegen,
Die door zyn kloek penceel, zig heeft dien staat verkregen,
Zig heeft door zyne Konst die eer en roem bereit,
Dat hy de Schilder is der Pruische Majesteit.] Probably during Prince Władysław Vasa's visit to Antwerp in 1624, he was recommended by Rubens as an excellent painter.[ ] That same year he went to Poland, where he was appointed royal court painter.schutterstuk
Schutterij () refers to a voluntary city guard or citizen militia in the medieval and early modern Netherlands, intended to protect the town or city from attack and act in case of revolt or fire. Their training grounds were often on open spaces w ...
ken''.
Legacy
One of his portraits that he painted for the Beresteijn family (regents of both the Beresteijn and Codde hofjes) was later sold as a Frans Hals
Frans Hals the Elder (, , ; – 26 August 1666) was a Dutch Golden Age painter, chiefly of individual and group portraits and of genre works, who lived and worked in Haarlem.
Hals played an important role in the evolution of 17th-century group ...
to the Louvre in the 1860s, but this was not from deception, but ignorance on the part of the hofje regents. This sale was considered a scandal in the Dutch press at the time, and Conrad Busken Huet
Conrad Busken Huet (28 December 1826, The Hague – 1 May 1886, Paris) was a Dutch pastor, journalist and literary critic.
Biography
Busken Huet, son of a Hague civil servant, attended Gymnasium Haganum and studied theology at Leiden Universi ...
wrote that the government should keep this national treasure in the country (he was living in Haarlem at the time).
Soutman's work hangs today in various museums, and in the Huis ten Bosch in The Hague. His pupils were Cornelis Visscher, Jacob Louys (1595-na 1635), and Pieter van Sompel.schutterstuk
Schutterij () refers to a voluntary city guard or citizen militia in the medieval and early modern Netherlands, intended to protect the town or city from attack and act in case of revolt or fire. Their training grounds were often on open spaces w ...
) in Haarlem, 1642
See also
* Peter Danckerts de Rij, another Dutch Golden Age painter at the Polish court.
References
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1590s births
1657 deaths
Dutch Golden Age painters
Dutch male painters
Court painters of Polish kings
Dutch expatriates in Poland
Artists from Haarlem
Painters from Haarlem