Pieter Soutman

Pieter Claeszoon Soutman (* 1580 in Haarlem; † August 16, 1657 ) was a Dutch painter and engraver, and draftsman and etcher and publisher.

Life

Soutmann formed with Peter Paul Rubens in Antwerp, after which paintings and drawings he ( da Vinci four hunts, the Miraculous Draught of Fishes, the Lord's Supper by Leonardo ) made ​​a number of etchings, and he also helped in the execution of his pictures. He is from 1624 to 1628 as court painter of King Sigismund III. Wasa have been active in Poland. Since 1628 he was back in Haarlem resident, where he founded a workshop of engravers that his own and other drawings, especially after Rubens, stood under his leadership. Soutmann even joined in Haarlem Frans Hals at more in the nature of which he painted several portraits and Protect fittings and exported decorative paintings at Huis ten Bosch in The Hague. He died on August 16, 1657 in Haarlem.