Philips Wouwerman Overview

Philips Wouwerman (1619 - 1668), was a Dutch Baroque painter of animals, hunting, landscapes and battle scenes, best known for his studies of horses. He painted several hundred pictures, of varying excellence, but characterized by brilliant color, vivacity, and excellent composition.

Wouwerman (also Wouwermans) baptized May 24, 1619, Haarlem, Netherland. Wouwerman is credited with more than 1,000 pictures, but many of these were painted by his brothers Pieter (1623–82) and Jan (1629–66) and by many other imitators. The most celebrated member of a family of Dutch painters from Haarlem, where he worked virtually all his life, he became a member of guild of painters at Haarlem in 1640.