Pieter Symonzs. Potter (c. 1597 – 1652)

• Was a Dutch Golden Age painter.

• According to Houbraken he was the city secretary of Enkhuizen.

• He married to the daughter of Paulus Bertius and the father of the painter Pieter I Potter, making him the grandfather of Pieter II, Paulus Potter, 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 still lifes.
• He became a member of the Delft Guild of St. Luke in 1646, and a member of the Confrerie Pictura in 1647.

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