Hendrick Couturier

Hendrick Couturier (1620, Leiden – 1684, New York City), was a Dutch Golden Age painter.

He is primarily known today as the (possible) portrait painter of Pieter Stuyvesant, though this attribution is based mainly on a court statement of his wife in 1663 that Stuyvesant had given her and her husband the "Burgerright" in exchange for the portrait he had painted of the Director General.

[2][3] There is archival evidence of Couturier's life which indicated guild membership in Leiden before emigrating and producing some works painted in New Amsterdam.

[1] [4] In 1925 an exhibition of portraits of early Americans was held in New York by the Century Association.

This prompted the New York art collector Thomas B. Clarke to purchase it, who later showed it in 1928 as part of his collection.