See also:

• PAUL
• PAUL (PAULUS)

PAUL See also:

• POTTER, ALONZO (1800-1865)
• POTTER, HENRY CODMAN (1835–1908)
• POTTER, J
• POTTER, JOHN (c. 1674-1747)
• PAUL POTTER (1625—1654)
• POTTER, PHILIP CIPRIANI HAMBLEY (1792—1871)

POTTER (1625—1654)  , Dutch See also:

• ANIMAL
• ANIMAL (Lat. animalis, from anima, breath, soul)

animal painter, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• ENKHUIZEN

Enkhuizen, See also:

• HOLLAND
• HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
• HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
• HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
• HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
• HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
• HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
• HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
• HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
• HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART

Holland . He was instructed In See also:

• ART

art by his See also:

• FATHER

father, See also:

• PETER
• PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
• PETER (PEDRO)
• PETER, EPISTLES OF
• PETER, ST

Peter See also:

• POTTER, ALONZO (1800-1865)
• POTTER, HENRY CODMAN (1835–1908)
• POTTER, J
• POTTER, JOHN (c. 1674-1747)
• POTTER, PAUL (1625—1654)
• POTTER, PHILIP CIPRIANI HAMBLEY (1792—1871)

Potter, a landscape and figure painter of some merit, and by See also:

• NICOLAS
• NICOLAS, SIR NICHOLAS HARRIS (1799–1848)

Nicolas Moeyaert, of See also:

• AMSTERDAM
• AMSTERDAM (NEw AMSTERDAM)

Amsterdam . Other masters and influences are mentioned by various writers, but more than any other of his contemporaries he learnt through See also:

• DIRECT

direct study from nature . By the See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time he had attained his fifteenth See also:

• YEAR

year his productions were already much esteemed . In 1646 he went to See also:

• DELFT

Delft, where he became a member of the gild of St See also:

• LUKE
• LUKE, GOSPEL OF ST

Luke . At the See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age of twenty he settled at the See also:

• HAGUE, THE (in Dutch, 's Gravenhage, or, abbreviated, den Haag; in Fr. La Haye; and in Late Lat. Haga Comitis)

Hague, and there married in 165o . He was patronized by See also:

• MAURICE (1521–1553)
• MAURICE (MAURICIUS FLAVIUS TIBERIUS) (c. 539–602)
• MAURICE [or MAURITIUS], ST (d. c. 286)
• MAURICE, JOHN FREDERICK DENISON (1805-1872)

Maurice, See also:

• PRINCE
• PRINCE (Lat. princeps, from primus capio, " I am the first to take "; Ital. principe, Fr. prince)

prince of See also:

• ORANGE
• ORANGE (Citrus Aurantium)
• ORANGE, HOUSE OF

Orange, for whom he painted the See also:

• LIFE

life-See also:

• SIZE

size picture of the " See also:

• YOUNG
• YOUNG, A
• YOUNG, ARTHUR (1741-1820)
• YOUNG, BRIGHAM (1801-1877)
• YOUNG, CHARLES MAYNE (1777–1856)
• YOUNG, EDWARD (1683–1765)
• YOUNG, JAMES (1811-1883)
• YOUNG, THOMAS (1773-1829)

Young See also:

• BULL
• BULL, GEORGE (1634–1710)
• BULL, JOHN (c. 1562–1628)
• BULL, OLE BORNEMANN (18ro-188o)

Bull," now one of the most celebrated See also:

• WORKS

works in the See also:

• GALLERY (through Ital. galleria, from Med. Lat. galeria, of which the origin is unknown)

gallery of the Hague . In 1652 he was induced by Burgomaster Tulp of Amsterdam to remove to that See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city . His constitution seems to have been feeble, and his See also:

• HEALTH

health suffered from the unremitting See also:

• DILIGENCE

diligence with which he pursued his art . He died on the 15th of See also:

• JANUARY

January 16J4 at the age of twenty-nine . His paintings are generally small; See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early in life, however, he attempted, but with See also:

• ILL

ill success, to See also:

• WORK

work on a monumental See also:

• SCALE
• SCALE (1) A

scale, as in the " See also:

• BEAR
• BEAR, BLACK
• BEAR, BROWN
• BEAR, GRIZZLY
• BEAR, ISABELLINE
• BEAR, WHITE

Bear See also:

• HUNT, ALFRED WILLIAM (183o-1896)
• HUNT, HENRY (1i73-1835)
• HUNT, HENRY JACKSON (1819-1889)
• HUNT, JAMES HENRY LEIGH (1784-1859)
• HUNT, ROBERT (1807-1887)
• HUNT, THOMAS STERRY (1826-1892)
• HUNT, WILLIAM HENRY (1790—1864)
• HUNT, WILLIAM HOLMAN (1827-1910)
• HUNT, WILLIAM MORRIS (1824-1879)

Hunt " at the Rijks Museum and the " See also:

• BOAR (0. Eng. bar; the word is found only in W. Ger. languages, cf. Dutch beer, Ger. Eber)

Boar Hunt " of the Carstanjen collection, See also:

• BERLIN
• BERLIN, CONGRESS AND TREATY OF
• BERLIN, ISAIAH (1725–1799)

Berlin . Even the famous "Equestrian Portrait of Tulp" in the Six collection, Amsterdam, is awkward and stiff and hard in handling .

His animals are designed with careful accuracy, while the landscape backgrounds are introduced with spirit and appropriateness . His See also:

• COLOUR (Lat. color, connected with celare, to hide, the root meaning, therefore, being that of a covering)

colour is clear and transparent, his See also:

• EXECUTION (from Lat. ex-sequor, exsecutus, follow or carry out)

execution See also:

• FIRM

firm and finished without being laboured . His view of nature is purely See also:

• OBJECTIVE, or OBJECT GLASS

objective and unemotional; he painted with the greatest directness and simplicity the things he saw before him, and his paintings of horses and See also:

• CATTLE (Norman Fr. catel, from Late Lat. capitale, wealth or property, a word applied in the feudal system to movable property and particularly to live stock, and surviving in its wider meaning as " chattel " or " chattle ")

cattle are so individualized that they become faithful portraits of the animals . The best among his small portraits of horses are in the Louvre and in the See also:

• SCHWERIN
• SCHWERIN, KURT CHRISTOPH, COUNT VON (1684–1757)

Schwerin Gallery; and certain of his studies are the most brilliant of all . The earliest dated picture of importance is " See also:

• ABRAHAM, or ABRAM (Hebrew for " father is high ")

Abraham Entering Into See also:

• CANAAN, CANAANITES

Canaan " (1642), at the Germanic Museum in See also:

• NUREMBERG (Ger. Nurnberg)

Nuremberg, in which he makes the Scriptural subject an excuse for See also:

• PAINTING

painting the See also:

• PATRIARCH (M.E. and O. Fr. patriarche, Lat. patriarcha, Gr. aarpuipxtis, from srarptu., clan, and apxil, rule)

patriarch's herds, just as in his " See also:

• ORPHEUS

Orpheus " of 165o (Rijks Museum, Amsterdam) he makes similar use of the See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek myth . Among his finest works on a small scale are a cattle piece (1653) in the Duc d'Arenberg's collection, and a similar, though earlier, picture in the See also:

• MUNICH (Ger. Munchen)

Munich Pinakothek . In spite of his early See also:

• DEATH

death See also:

• PAUL
• PAUL (PAULUS)

Paul Potter produced a See also:

• GREAT

great number of works . He worked with feverish application, as though he were aware of the See also:

• SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short span of life that was granted him . He executed a See also:

• SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series of some twenty etchings, mainly of animals, which are See also:

• SIMPLE

simple and direct in method and handling . Here, as in painting, his precocity was remarkable : his large See also:

• PLATE

plate of the " Herdsman," produced when he was only eighteen, and that of the " Shepherd," which See also:

• DATES

dates from the following year, show him at his best as an accomplished See also:

• MASTER (Lat. magister, related to tnagis, more, as the corresponding minister is to minus, less; the English form is due partly to the O. Eng. maegister, and partly to O. Fr. maistre, mod. maitre; cf. Du. meester, Ger. Meister, Ital. maestro)

master of the point . Potter's works have been engraved by See also:

• BARTOLOZZI, FRANCESCO (1725-1815)

Bartolozzi, Danckerts, Visscher, Le Bas and others . See also:

• AUTHENTIC (from Gr. aOO 'rns, one who does a thing himself)

Authentic paintings from his See also:

• BRUSH (from Fr. brosse, which, like the English word, means both the undergrowth of a wood and the instrument; if the word in both these meanings is ultimately the same, then the origin is from a bundle of brushwood used as a brush or broom, but this is h
• BRUSH, GEORGE DE FOREST (1855– )

brush command very considerable prices .

At the Stover See also:

• SALE
• SALE, GEORGE (c. 1697-1736)
• SALE, SIR ROBERT HENRY (1782—1845)

sale in 1890 " The See also:

• DAIRY

Dairy See also:

• FARM

Farm " realized the See also:

• RECORD (Lat. recordari, to recall to mind, from cor, heart or mind)

record See also:

• PRICE
• PRICE, BARTHOLOMEW (1818–1898)
• PRICE, BONAMY (1807-1888)
• PRICE, RICHARD (1723-1791)

price of 6o9o . There are two of his paintings at the See also:

• NATIONAL

National Gallery, three in See also:

• BUCKINGHAM
• BUCKINGHAM, EARLS, MARQUESSES AND DUKES OF
• BUCKINGHAM, FIRST DUKE
• BUCKINGHAM, GEORGE VILLIERS, 1ST DUKE 0E1
• BUCKINGHAM, GEORGE VILLIERS, 2ND DUKE 0E1 (1628-1687)
• BUCKINGHAM, HENRY STAFFORD, 2ND DUKE OF3 (1454-1483)
• BUCKINGHAM, JAMES SILK (1786-1855)

Buckingham See also:

• PALACE (Lat. Palatium, the name given by Augustus to his residence on the Palatine Hill)

Palace and a few in the See also:

• DUKE (corresponding to Fr. duc, Ital. duca, Ger. Herzog)

duke of See also:

• WESTMINSTER
• WESTMINSTER, MARQUESSES AND DUKES OF
• WESTMINSTER, STATUTES OF
• WESTMINSTER, SYNODS OF

Westminster's collection . On the See also:

• CONTINENT (from Lat. continere, "to hold together "; hence " connected," " continuous ")

continent of See also:

• EUROPE

Europe the most numerous and representative examples are to be found at the Rijks Museum in Amsterdam, the Hermitage in St See also:

• PETERSBURG

Petersburg, and the See also:

• DRESDEN

Dresden Gallery . See See also:

• PAULUS
• PAULUS (older form PAur.Lus), LUCIUS AEMILIUS
• PAULUS, HEINRICH

Paulus Potter, sa See also:

• VIE

vie et ses teuvres, by T. See also:

• VAN

van Westrheene (the Hague, 1867) ; Eaux-f ortes de Paul Potter, by Georges Gratet Duplessis ; and an old but interesting See also:

• VOLUME

volume, Paul Potter, peintre de l'ecole hollandaise, by C . L . F . Lecarpentier (See also:

• ROUEN

Rouen, 1818) . (P . G .