Pieter Symonsz Potter (1597 in Enkhuizen – 1652 in Amsterdam), was a Dutch Golden Age painter.
According to Houbraken he was the city secretary of Enkhuizen, married to the daughter of Paulus Bertius and the dad of the painter Pieter I Potter, making him the grandfather of Pieter II, Paulus, and Maria Potter.
According to the RKD his wife was the sister of the painter Willem Bartsius, and he was the father, not the grandfather, of Pieter II, Paulus and Maria. He was first trained as a glass painter and in 1628 moved to Leiden to learn painting in oils. He is known mostly for genre pieces, farm landscapes and yet lifes, and he became a supporter of the Delft Guild of St. Luke in 1646, and a supporter of the Confrerie Pictura in 1647 (although this photograph album in The Hague guild chronicles may have been for drawing lessons for his oldest son Peter).
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