Self-portrait of the painter and engraver Moyses van Wtenbrouck (Moses van Uyttenbroeck). In the background an obelisk. Rijksmuseum Amsterdam.
Moyses van Wtenbrouck (also Moses van Uyt (t) enbroeck and various other spellings occur) (The Hague, ca. 1595 - there, ca. 1647) was a Dutch painter and etcher from the Golden Age.
Little is known with certainty about the life of Wtenbrouck. He was born between 1590 and 1600 and died in or before 1647. He was a younger brother of the painter Jan Matheus van Wtenbrouck (The Hague, 1585 - c. 1650) who joined the Saint Luke Guild in 1614.
Wtenbrouck was the teacher of Anthonie Jansz. van der Croos and possibly also Dirck Dalens. He made portraits, possibly including a self-portrait, (italianising) landscapes, history pieces, erotically colored bacchanals and biblical and especially mythological scenes. The latter were mainly derived from Ovidius' Metamorphoses. Bacchanaal, 1627, Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig
Wtenbrouck was a popular painter who could well manage the income from his works. He regularly received commissions from Prince Frederick Henry, which made him a court painter.
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