Willem Pieterszoon Buytewech
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Willem Pieterszoon Buytewech 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
Willem Buytewech's Merry Company 1620
The Leiden anatomical theatre during a dissection.
Haarlem Guild of St. Luke
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The Haarlem Guild of Saint Luke was first a Christian, and later a city Guild for various trades falling under the patron saints Luke the Evangelist and Saint Eligius.
Willem Pieterszoon Buytewech
…Rotterdam. He was the son of Pieter Jacobsz, a cobbler and candlemaker. He learned his trade in Haarlem, where he became a member of the artists' guild (Haarlem Guild of St. Luke) in 1612, together with Hercules Segers and Esaias van de Velde. Frans Hals, who was a member of this guild since 1610, had much influence on Buytenwech's…
Maarten van Heemskerck painted this diptych before he left Haarlem for Italy in 1532.
Doorway to the original monastery of the Carmelites and the Vrouwebroerskerk. Called the Guldenbergspoortje or Golden mountain gate in the Grote Houtstraat.
Transcription of Salomon de Bray's proposed hierarchy of the guild in 1631.
The Governors of the Haarlem Guild of St Luke in 1675. Salomon's son Jan de Bray painted himself second from the left.