Pieter Symonsz Potter

Paulus Potter is recorded as having studied under Pieter Symonsz Potter. The recorded working language is Dutch. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait. Works named in the authority record are A musical company in an interior, Perseus and Andromeda. Work by Pieter Symonsz Potter is recorded in the collections of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Amsterdam Museum, National Gallery of Ireland, Staatliches Museum Schwerin and Rijksmuseum.

According to Houbraken he was the city secretary of Enkhuizen, he was married to the daughter of Paulus Bertius and the father of the painter Pieter I Potter, making him the grandfather of Pieter II, Paulus, and Maria Potter. According to the RKD his wife was the sister of the painter Willem Bartsius, and he was the father, not the grandfather, of Pieter II, Paulus and Maria. He was first trained as a glass painter and in 1628 moved to Leiden to learn painting in oils. He is known mostly for genre pieces, farm landscapes and still lifes, and he became a member of the Delft Guild of St. Luke in 1646, and a member of the Confrerie Pictura in 1647 (although this record in The Hague guild archives may have been for drawing lessons for his oldest son Peter).

The authorities additionally record the headings Pieter Symonsz. Potter, Pieter de Potter, Pieter Potter, Pieter Simonsz. Potter and Pieter de Putter. His recorded language was Dutch. One child is recorded: Paulus Potter.

Works recorded as notable number 3: A musical company in an interior, Perseus and Andromeda. Allegory of the liberation of the Netherlands by Prince Frederik Hendrik and Vanitas still life. His recorded genre is portrait.

Pieter Symonsz Potter is recorded as painter, draftsperson, stained-glass artist and gold leather-maker.