3 facts about Pieter Wouwerman

Pieter Wouwerman (September 13, 1623 – May 9, 1682) was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter.

He was born in Haarlem. According to Arnold Houbraken, a biographer of artists from the Dutch Golden Age, Pieter Wouwerman was the brother of the landscape painters Jan and Philips Wouwerman, who, like his more famous brother, made a energetic selling Italianate landscapes in the declare of Pieter van Laer. Houbraken mentioned a relation in which Philips Wouwerman burned his sketchbooks since his death, so that his brother wouldn’t be able to use them and cash in upon his name. Houbraken claimed that the bill was malicious gossip, but he had heard another tab that was probably closer to the truth. Apparently behind Pieter van Laer returned to Haarlem, his art was worth less than what he traditional in Rome, but he wouldn’t lower his price. When a landscape that Laer made was considered too expensive, the buyer granted the then teen Philips Wouwermans to copy it, which he did quite well. The achievement of this transaction launched the career of the teen Wouwermans at the expense of Pieter van Laer, and Houbraken heard from Michiel Carré who in position heard it from Pieter Gerritsz van Roestraten and Jacob de Wet that guilt annoyed Wouwerman to burn the proof of everything of his copies back he died.

According to the RKD (Netherlands Institute for Art History), he was a student of Roelant Roghman, his older brother Philips, and his daddy Pouwels. He left Haarlem for Amsterdam in 1657. He died in 1682 in Amsterdam.