Paulus Potter (1625 - January 17, 1654) was a Dutch painter specializing in animals and landscapes.
He was born in Enkhuizen, and studied painting with his father Pieter Potter. He lived for a few years in The Hague where he met his wife and was introduced in the Dutch elite. After disagreements with fellow painters, he left for Amsterdam. He died in 1654, 28 years old, having produced about a hundred paintings.
Potter was the son of the painter Pieter Simonsz Potter and his wife, Aechtie Paulusdr Bartsius, sister of the painter Willem Bartsius.
Potter was gifted in a variety of genres and media, and it is speculated that "The Herd" is his very first etching that he executed in 1643 at the age of either seventeen or eighteen.
Potter was revolutionary in his utilization of animals alone as the primary focal subject of a rural landscape.
PAUL POTTER (1625-1654), Dutch animal painter, was born at Enkhuizen, Holland.
He was instructed in art by his father, Peter Potter, a landscape and figure painter of some merit, and by Nicolas Moeyaert, of Amsterdam.
On the continent of Europe the most numerous and representative examples are to be found at the Rijks Museum in Amsterdam, the Hermitage in St Petersburg, and the Dresden Gallery.
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