Pieter Wouwerman (1623–1682)

• Was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter.
• He was born in Haarlem.

• According to Arnold Houbraken, Pieter Wouwerman was the brother of the landscape painters Jan and Philips Wouwerman.

• Houbraken mentioned a story in which Philips Wouwerman burned his sketchbooks before his death, so that his brother would not be able to use them and cash in on his name.

• Houbraken claimed that the story was malicious gossip, but he had heard another story that was probably closer to the truth.

• Acording to the RKD, he was a student of Roelant Roghman, his older brother Philips, and his father Pouwels.

• He left Haarlem for Amsterdam in 1657.

• He died in 1682 in Amsterdam.

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