Willem De Poorter

Place: Haarlem

Born: 1608

Death: 1668

Biography:

Willem de Poorter (1608–1668) was a Dutch Golden Age painter. According to Houbraken he painted a very good Queen of Sheba, but he painted mostly still lifes. His surviving paintings today are mainly small historical allegories and still lifes with metal objects. Though he has been considered in the past by (some) 19th century historians to have be...