Willem Pieterszoon Buytewech (1591–1624)

• Was a Dutch Golden Age painter, draughtsman and etcher.
• His contemporaries named him “Gheestige Willem” (Jolly or spirited William).
• Buytewech was born and died in Rotterdam.
• He was the son of Pieter Jacobsz, a cobbler and candlemaker.
• He learned his trade in Haarlem, where he became a member of the artists' guild (Haarlem Guild of St. Luke) in 1612.
• After his marriage on November 10, 1613, with Aeltje van Amerongen, of a patrician family, he returned to Rotterdam.
• There Hendrik Martenszoon Sorgh was one of his pupils.
• He died at age 32 or 33 of unrecorded causes.
• His son Willem Willemsz Buytewech, born after his death, would become a painter as well. 
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