![Philips Wouwerman - The Hay Wagon [after c.1650]](http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7722/17419637315_44e5e22542_o.jpg)
Philips Wouwerman (Haarlem, baptised May 24, 1619 - Haarlem, May 19, 1668) was a Dutch painter of hunting, landscape and battle scenes. 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.
[Mauritshuis, The Hague - Oil on panel, 40 x 48 cm]