Antonie Waterloo, draughtsman, painter and printmaker, was born in 1609 or 1610 in Lille, France and he died on 23 October 1690 in Utrecht, the Netherlands. He was a painter of landscapes and also worked in engraving, etching, and drawing. Little is known about Waterloo but it appears that he spent the better part of his life in Holland, dividing his time between Amsterdam, Leewarden and Utrecht.

Waterloo married in 1640 and traveled to Germany, Holland and Italy. He owned a castle near Utrecht where Jan Weenix (Dutch painter 1640-1719) would come to paint the figures for his pictures. It is accepted that Waterloo was self-taught based upon the particular nature of his technique. He employed an unusual combination of watercolor, gouache, chalks and charcoal soaked in linseed oil. His drawings are works of art in their own right, in no way resembling sketches. His prints, numbering one hundred and thirty-six, most often depict wooded landscapes.

(source: E. Benezit, Dictionnaire Des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs, et Graveurs.)