Pieter van der Willigen (17 December 1634 – 8 June 1694) was a Flemish Baroque painter.
Biography According to Cornelis de Bie, he was born in Bergen op Zoom and was a good still-life painter.Het Gulden Cabinet, p 529 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.Pieter van der Willigen in the RKD He is known as a still-life painter who influenced David Bailly. In 1662 his brother Jan van der Willigen was his pupil. He died in Antwerp.
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. 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. Pieter van der Willigen biography in De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature
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