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The son of a Flemish émigré, Willem de Poorter was likely born in Haarlem in ¹ The circumstances of his training are not clear. It is often proposed that he studied with Rembrandt van Rijn (&#x;69) in Leiden, about –² That training, however, may have occurred in Amsterdam as late as the mids, thereby constituting not a student-pupil relationship so much as a mid-career supervision.³ By De Poorter’s name appears in the Haarlem city archives, where he is listed as a member of the Guild of Saint Luke by ⁴ Although he was documented as being in the village of Wijk bij Heusden in , he seems to have spent his career largely in Haarlem, where his name continues to appear in the city’s archives until ⁵ The date and location of his death are not known.

According to Arnold Houbraken (–), De Poorter was a specialist of history and still-life painting, though only a few of the latter survive.⁶ Today he is best known for his religious and mythol Willem de poorter biography definition francais.