Pieter van der Willigen

Pieter van der Willigen (17 December 1634 – 8 June 1694) was a Flemish Baroque painter.

According to Cornelis de Bie, he was born in Bergen op Zoom and was a good still-life painter.

[1] According to the RKD, he became a pupil of Thomas Willeboirts Bosschaert in 1652, was a member of the Guild of St. Luke from 1655 to 1669, and became poorter in Antwerp in 1661.

[2] Many paintings formerly attributed to him have been re-attributed to Hendrick Andriessen, especially those with a wreath of straw on top of a skull.

[2] Today very few works remain that can be attributed to him, though De Bie wrote a page-long poem about his "still" paintings, and Houbraken also included a poem about his still-life paintings from another source.