He then removed to Amsterdam, where he lived during the rest of his life. He painted from 130 to 140 pictures, seven-eighths of them between 1647 and 1654. His most renowned work is The Young Bull, signed, and dated 1647, Hague Museum. T. van Westrheene's biography of Paul Potter contains a complete catalogue of his works, chiefly rural subjects. Among them are: Landscape with Cattle (1651), Old Gray Hunter, National Gallery, London; others in Buckingham Palace (5), Bridgewater, Grosvenor, and Somerset Galleries; Baring, Hertford, Holford, Hope, and Miles Collections, ib.; Horses at a Trough before Cottage (1647), Vast Meadow with Oxen, etc. (1652), Louvre, Paris; Shepherd's Hut (1645), Bear-Hunt, Horses in Pasture (1649), Orpheus charming the Animals (1650), Herdsmen with their Herds, Cows in Pasture (1651), Landscape with Cattle (1653), Amsterdam Museum; Young Bull (1647), Cows by River, and Bathers (1648), Meadow with Cattle and Swine (1652), Hague Museum; Start for the Chase in the "Bosch" near The Hague (1652), Berlin Museum; Great Cattle-piece, two others, Cassel Gallery; Cows on Hill-Top (1648), Gallery, Copenhagen; Bowling Green by a Farm (1652), Moltke Collection, ib.; Park with Hunting Party, Herdsman driving Cattle up a Hill, Cattle Horse and Sheep (1652), Dresden Museum; Cattle-pieces (3, two dated 1645, 1647), Gotha Museum; Man taking Horses to Pond (1650), Peasants at Foot of a Hill, Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Farm Scene (1646), Herd driven by Man and Woman, Old Pinakothek, Munich; Cattle-pieces (2, 1649, 1651), Halt of Huntsmen (1650), Hunter's Life, Landscape with Figures (1650), three others, Hermitage, St. Petersburg; Milkmaid (1648), In Pasture (2, 1649), Before the Tavern (1650), Truly Rural (1651), Schwerin Gallery; Cattle-piece (1649), Harrach Gallery, Vienna; Herd driven to Pasture, Czernin Gallery, ib.; Sunset Landscape with Cows, Naples Museum.—Ch. Blanc, École hollandaise; Dohme, 1ii.; Immerzeel, ii. 324; Kramm, v. 1307; Kugler (Crowe), ii. 435; Kunst-Chronik, xvii. 283; Riegel, Beiträge, i. 92; De Stuers, 109; Westrheene, Paulus P. (Hague, 1867); Zeitschr. f. b. K., iii. 221; v. 121; xvii. 182.
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POTTER, PIETER, born at Enkhuysen in 1587, died probably in Amsterdam after 1650. Dutch school; genre, animal, and still-life painter; shows in his earlier works the influence of Frans Hals, in his later that of Rembrandt. They are painted in grayish tone; the treatment is powerful and elegant. His still-life pieces are excellent. Settled at Amsterdam in 1631; lived also at The Hague, where he was admitted to the guild in 1647. Works: Girl busy in the Kitchen (1640), Mentz Museum; Expulsion of Hagar (1643), Amalienstift, Dessau; Stag-*Hunt (165-), National Gallery, London; Straw Cutters, Still-Life (1646), Amsterdam Museum Shepherds and Shepherdesses (1638), Hague Museum; Guitar Player, formerly Mr. Goldsmith's Collection, Hague; Landscape with Figures (1662), Rotterdam Museum (?); Backgammon Players (1629), Copenhagen Gallery; Boas and Ruth (1648), Amalienstift, Dessau; Guard Room (1631), Prague Gallery; Cavalier (1640), Schönborn Gallery, Vienna; Still-*Life (1636), Berlin Museum.—Bode, Studien, 167, 227; Kramm, v. 1311; Meyer, Museen, 352.
POTTGIESSER, JOHANN WILHELM,
German school, second half 17th century.
History and portrait painter, master of the
guild in Cologne in Feb., 1656. Works:
