POTTEE He then removed to Amsterdam, where he lived during the rest of his life. He painted from 130 to 140 pictures, seven-eighths of them between 1G47 and 1654. His most re- nowned work is The Young Bull, signed, and dated 1C47, Hague Museum. T. van West- rheeue's biography of Paul Potter contains a complete catalogue of his works, chiefly rural subjects. Among them are : Land- scape with Cattle (1651), Old Gray Hunter, National Gallery, London ; others in Buck- ingham Palace (5), Bridgewater, Grosve- nor, and Somerset Galleries, Baring, Hert- ford, Hoi ford, Hope, and Miles Collections, ib. ; Horses at a Trough before Cottage (1647), Vast Meadow with Oxen, etc. (1652), Louvre, Paris; Shepherd's Hut (1645), Bear-Hunt, Horses in Pasture (1649), Orpheus charming the Animals (1G50), Herdsmen with their Herds, Cows in Past- ure (1651), Landscape with Cattle (1(553), Amsterdam Museum ; Young Bull (1G47), Cows by River, and Bathers (1648), Meadow with Cattle and Swine (1652), Hague Mu- seum ; Start for the Chase in the " Bosch " near The Hague (1652), Berlin Museum ; Great Cattle-piece, two others, Cassel Gal- lery ; Cows on Hill-Top (1648), Gallery, Copenhagen ; Bowling Green by a Farm (1652), Moltke Collection, ib.; Park with Hunting Party, Herdsman driving Cattle up a Hill, Cattle Horse and Sheep (1G52), Dresden Museum ; Cattle-pieces (3, two dated 1645, 1647), Gotha Museum ; Man taking Horses to Pond (1G50), Peasants at Foot of a Hill, Kunsthalle, Hamburg ; Farm Scene (1646), Herd driven by Man and Wom- an, Old Pinakothek, Munich ; Cattle-pieces (2, 1G49, 1651), Halt of Huntsmen (1650), Hunter's Life, Landscape with Figures (1650), three others, Hermitage, St. Peters- burg ; Milkmaid (1648), In Pasture (2, 1649), Before the Tavern (1650), Truly Ru- ral (1651), Schwerin Gallery ; Cattle-piece (1649), Harrach Gallery, Vienna ; Herd driven to Pasture, Czernin Gallery, ib. ; Sun- set Landscape with Cows, Naples Museum. Ch. Blanc, P^cole hollandaise ; Dohme, lii. ; Immerzeel, ii. 324; Kramm, v. 1307; Kugler (Crowe), ii. 435; Kuust-Chronik, xvii. 283 ; Riegel, Beitriige, i. 92 ; De Stuers, 109 ; "Westrheene, Paulus P. (Hague, 1867) ; Zeitschr. f. b. K, iii. 221 ; v. 121 ; xvii. 182. POTTER, PIETER, born at Enkhuysen in 1587, died probably in Amsterdam after 1650. Dutch school ; genre, animal, and still-life painter ; shows in his earlier works the influence of Frans Hals, in his later that of Rembrandt. They are painted in grayish tone ; the treatment is powerful and elegant. His still-life pieces are excellent. Settled at Amsterdam in 1631 ; lived also at The Hague, where he was admitted to the guild in 1647. Works : Girl busy in the Kitch- en (1640), Mentz Museum ; Expulsion of Hagar (1643), Amalieustift, Dessau ; Stag- Hunt (165-), National Gallery, London ; Straw Cutters, Still-Life (1646), Amster- dam Museum Shepherds and Shepherd- esses (1638), Hague Museum ; Guitar Play- er, formerly Mr. Goldsmith's Collection, Hague ; Landscape with Figures (1662), Rotterdam Museum (?) ; Backgammon Play- ers (1629), Copenhagen Gallery ; Boas and Ruth (1648), Amalienstift, Dessau ; Guard Room (1631), Prague Gallery ; Cavalier (1640), Schonborn Gallery, Vienna ; Still- Life (1636), Berlin Museum. Bode, Studi- en, 167, 227 ; Kramm, v. 1311 ; Meyer, Mu- seeu, 352. POTTGEESSER, JOHANN WILHELM, German school, second half 17th century. History and portrait painter, master of the guild iii Cologne in Feb., 1656. Works: 464
