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Dutch painter (–)

For the World War II cargo ship, see MV Philips Wouwerman.

Philips Wouwerman (also Wouwermans) (24 May (baptized) – 19 May ) was a Dutch painter of hunting, landscape and battle scenes.

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He became prolific during the Dutch Golden Age and joined the Haarlem Guild of St. Luke.

Life and work

Philips Wouwerman was one of the most versatile and prolific artists of the Dutch Golden Age. Embedded in the artistic environment and tradition of his home town of Haarlem, Wouwerman made an important and highly influential contribution to the canon of seventeenth-century Dutch painting.

His pictures were in demand during his lifetime, and even more sought after in the 18th century. Throughout Europe, formerly princely art collections like in Dresden and St. Petersburg still bear witness to this widespread admiration of Wouwerman's art.^[1]

Born in Haarlem in , the son of a now altogether obscure painter named Pouwels Joostsz Wouwerman,