Hendrick Gerritsz. Pot was probably bornin Haarlem. He is thought to have been a pupil of
Karel van Mander. He worked in Haarlem where he was Dean of the
guild in 1626, 1630 and 1635. In 1632 he was in London and after 1648 in Amsterdam, where he died. He was a chiefly a portrait and
genre painter.