Johannes Withoos (1648 – c.1688) was a Dutch Golden Age painter and the eldest son of Mathias Withoos and brother of the painters Alida, Maria, Frans and Pieter.
[1] Alida was still alive when Houbraken was writing and gave him the information he used for his sketch on her father and the rest of the family.
Johannes travelled to Rome like his father had done, and came back with lots of sketches of buildings and landscapes.
[1] He planned to spend the rest of his days in Holland, but travelled abroad again to the court of Julius Francis, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg in Ratzeburg.
[2] If he made room decorations in Ratzeburg, they would have been destroyed in 1693 when Christian V of Denmark reduced Ratzeburg to rubble by bombardment.