Anthonie Waterloo (1609-1690)

• Was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter.
• Waterloo is thought to have been born at Ryssel near Lille.
• His mother was Magdalena Vaillant.
• Although registered as a painter, he had little success in selling his own canvases and, apparently, supported himself through his activities as an art dealer.
• In 1640 he married in Amsterdam.
• In 1653 he left the church and moved to Leeuwarden, but in 1654 he buried a daughter in Amsterdam before moving to Maarssen in 1655 where he lived until 1676.
• According to Houbraken he was good friends with Jan Weenix who told Houbraken that he knew him for 45 years and often visited him in his house between Maarssen and Breukelen where he lived as a bachelor, to decorate his landscape paintings with animals and other objects.
• Oil paintings by Waterloo are relatively scarce, but his many drawings of forest scenes and other topographical views are found.
• His art dealership exposed him to the work of a number of respected contemporary landscape artists such as Jacob van Ruisdael, Simon de Vlieger, Roelant Roghman, and Caesar van Everdingen.
• Waterloo was active in Amsterdam, Leeuwarden, and Utrecht, where he died in 1690.
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