波特出生于阿姆斯特丹和在阿姆斯特丹和哈勒姆早年。在1632年，他前往伦敦，在那里他画皇室。他从1633到居住在1648哈勒姆，之后他搬到阿姆斯特丹，在那里他在1657年去世[1]他曾担任院长圣卢克哈勒姆协会于1626年，1630和1635年他曾担任协会的头人或Hoofdman 1634年和1648年，他在阿姆斯特丹死了。

作品和风格
波特大概的学生卡雷尔·曼德，因为是哈尔斯的，他们相互影响。壶的画有时在题材寓言和他也画组schutterstuk肖像，如在1630年圣阿德里安民兵公司的官员，他也被画家和雕刻的影响威廉Buytewech。波特委托在伦敦画的肖像国王查尔斯一世和王后玛丽亚·亨丽埃塔在1632年; 结果现在挂在皇家收藏在伦敦。

波特的类型风格的场景中被称为“ 风流公司 ”的风俗画。这包括他的1635件，人像的年轻女子和一个姊妹篇，现在失去了，以及他1630块，一个快乐的公司在表。这两种绘画包含被认为性感的象征意义几个对象。一个快乐的公司在表是在一个设定的妓院，在荷兰的一个热门话题风俗画。

后者件还包括盆栽的作品涉及一个共同的主题; 美丽，年龄和死亡。这个主题的高潮在他著名的一块VANITAS寓言，通常简称为虚荣，并且其中还包含主题和感性的爱情的象征。其他著名作品罐是一个令人吃惊的介绍，该钱币收藏家和傻瓜的植物的旅行车（如图所示），他在其中处于起步开起了玩笑郁金香贸易哈勒姆，其中一小会儿的花香是按重量出售。

他更多的标准，但仍时尚，肖像作品包括他的罗伯特Phelips爵士的肖像和他的英国国王和王后的作品。
 

Potter was born in Amsterdam and early in Amsterdam and Haarlem. In 1632, he went to London, where he painted the Royal family. He lived in Haarlem from 1633 to 1648, after he moved to Amsterdam, where he died in 1657 [1] he served as president of the Haarlem guild of St. Luke in 1626, 1630 and 1635 he served as the association of headman or Hoofdman 1634 and 1648, he died in Amsterdam.
Works and style
Potter Karel Mander is probably the students, because they influence each other HALS. The pots are sometimes painted in the subject of fables and he also painted portraits of group schutterstuk, such as the official of the 1630 St. Adrian militia company, he was also influenced by painters and sculptures of, Buytewech. Potter was commissioned in London to paint a portrait of King Charles and queen Maria Henrietta in 1632; the results are now hung in the Royal Collection in london.
Potter's genre style scene is known as the "dissolute company" genre painting. This includes his 1635 pieces, portrait of a young woman and a sister article, now lost, as well as his 1630 piece, a happy company in the table. These two paintings contain several objects that are thought to be sexy. A happy company in the table is set in a brothel, a popular topic in Holland genre painting.
The latter also includes potted works involving a common theme; beauty, age and death. The climax of this theme in his famous piece of VANITAS fable, usually referred to as vanity, and which also contains the theme and emotional symbol of love. Other famous works can be a surprise, the coin collectors and fools plant wagon (as shown), in which he played the joke at the beginning of tulip trade in Haarlem, among them a little while the flowers are sold by weight.
He is more standard, but still fashion, portraits include his portrait of Sir Robert Phelips and his British king and Queen's works.