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Joachim Anthonisz Wtewael  (1566 – 1638),


• Was a Dutch Mannerist painter and draughtsman.
• Wtewael was born and spent almost all of his life in Utrecht.
• In 1586, he began four years of travelling and living in Italy and then France.
• Returning to Utrecht in about 1590, Wtewael established a workshop and joined the saddlemakers' guild as a painter.
 • Later he was a founder member of the new Utrecht Guild of Saint Luke for the painters of Utrecht. 
• He was town councillor of Utrecht.
• His granddaughter still owned 30 of his paintings in 1669.
• The displayed painting is a crop from: Mars and Venus Surprised by Vulcan 1604-08.