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Philips Wouwerman (1619 – 1668) 

• Was a Dutch painter of hunting, landscape and battle scenes.
• About 800 pictures were listed in John Smith's Catalogue raisonné (1829/1842) as the work of Philip Wouwerman.
• In Hofstede de Groot's enlarged Catalogue (1908) the number exceeds to 1200 hence many were actually painted by countless followers and imitators all over Europe. 
• In Birgit Schumacher's recently published Catalogue raisonné (2006), only about 570 pictures were listed as authentic works. 
• Jan and Pieter Wouwerman, the younger brothers of Philips, were often regarded as close followers.
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