Artist

Willem Pieterszoon Buytewech

Dutch, 1591–1624

Willem Pieterszoon Buytewech was a Dutch Dutch Golden Age artist. 6 works are cataloged here, principally at Cleveland Museum of Art. Willem Pieterszoon Buytewech was born in Rotterdam.

Willem Pieterszoon (abbr. Pietersz.) Buytewech (1591/'92 – 23 September 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).

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