Willem de Poorter was a Dutch Golden Age painter. Though he has been considered in the past by (some) 19th century historians to have been a pupil of Rembrandt, he in fact lived and worked in Haarlem, not Amsterdam. De Poorter was a specialist of history and still-life painting, though only a few of the latter survive. Today he is best known for his religious and mythological works, some of which bear stylistic affinities to the early work of Rembrandt as well as to that of Rembrandt’s teacher, Pieter Lastman.
