Willem Pietersz. Buytewech

Willem Pietersz. Buytewech (c.1592–1624) Painter, draughtsman and etcher Willem Pietersz Buytewech died at the early age of 33. Born in Rotterdam, he served his apprenticeship mainly in Haarlem. He joined Haarlem’s St Luke’s guild in 1612, along with landscape artists Hercules Segers and Esaias van de Velde. In fact, Buytewech’s genre paintings have more in common with th...