(b Haarlem, c. 1580; d Haarlem, 16 Aug 1657). Dutch engraver, etcher, draughtsman, painter and publisher, active in Flanders. By 1615–16 he was apparently in Antwerp, working in the studio of Rubens; he later studied engraving with Jacob Matham. In 1619 he became a member of the Antwerp Guild of St Luke and in 1620 was granted citizenship, from which time he worked chiefly with Rubens. In 1624 he entered the service of King Sigismund III of Poland, who was then in the southern Netherlands, and, according to the inscription on an engraved portrait of the artist, he was still a court painter in 1628, the year he left Antwerp to return to Haarlem, where in 1633 he married. In the same year he became a commissioner of the Haarlem Guild of St Luke.

• Soutman, Pieter (Claesz.)
  • Netherlands, the, §III, 4(ii): Painting and graphic arts, c 1550–c 1680: Haarlem
  • Poland, §III, 3: Painting and graphic arts, c 1600–c 1700
  • attributions
    • Pot, Hendrik
  • collaboration
    • Engraving, §II, 4(iii): Reproductive engraving, c 1600–c 1750
    • Hague, The, §IV, 3: Huis ten Bosch
    • Louys, Jacob
    • Visscher, Cornelis
  • patrons and collectors
    • Delacroix, Eugène, §I, 5: Later years, c 1850–1863
    • Vasa, House of: (2) Sigismund III, King of Poland
  • pupils
    • Leeuw, Willem van der
    • Sompel, Pieter van
  • reproductive prints by others
    • Suyderhoef, Jonas