Willem Pietersz Buytewech

Place: Rotterdam

Born: 1592

Death: 1624

Biography:

Willem Pieterszoon Buytewech (1591/1592 – September 23, 1624) was a Dutch Golden Age painter, draughtsman and etcher. He is one of the early specialists in the merry company type of subject in Dutch genre painting. His contemporaries named him “Gheestige Willem” (Jolly or spirited William). Buytewech was born and died in Rotterdam. He was the son o...