Carel de Moor (II), by Carel de Moor (II)

Carel de Moor (25 February 1655 – 16 February 1738) was a

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etcher and painter. He was a pupil of

Gerard Dou Gerrit Dou (7 April 1613 – 9 February 1675), also known as Gerard Douw or Dow, was a Dutch Golden Age painter, whose small, highly polished paintings are typical of the Leiden fijnschilders. He specialised in genre scenes and is noted for his ' ...

Biography

Carel de Moor was born in

Leiden Leiden (; in English and archaic Dutch also Leyden) is a city and municipality in the province of South Holland, Netherlands. The municipality of Leiden has a population of 119,713, but the city forms one densely connected agglomeration wit ...

. According to Houbraken, his father was an art dealer who wanted him to study languages and only allowed him to study art when his talent for drawing surfaced at a young age. Houbraken met him in person at the atelier of

Godfried Schalcken Godfried Schalcken (1643 – 16 November 1706) was a Dutch genre and portrait painter. He was noted for his mastery in reproducing the effect of candlelight, and painted in the exquisite and highly polished manner of the Leiden fijnschilders. L ...

when he was completing his education there.Karel de Moor biography
in ''De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen'' (1718) by

Arnold Houbraken Arnold Houbraken (28 March 1660 – 14 October 1719) was a Dutch painter and writer from Dordrecht, now remembered mainly as a biographer of Dutch Golden Age painters. Life Houbraken was sent first to learn ''threadtwisting'' (Twyndraat) fr ...

, courtesy of the

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According to the RKD he was the son of a Leiden painter of the same name and a pupil of Dou, Frans van Mieris,

, and Abraham van den Tempel. He became a member of the Leiden Guild of St. Luke in 1683, and became deacon many times over in the years 1688–1711. His own pupils later were

Pieter Lyonet Pierre Lyonnet or Lyonet (21 July 1706 – 10 January 1789) was a Dutch artist and engraver who became a naturalist. He was a collector both of shells (a major collecting craze at the time) and paintings, whose collection included '' Woman Re ...

Andrei Matveev Count Andrey Artamonovich Matveev (russian: Андрей Артамонович Матвеев) (1666–1728) was a Russian statesman of the Petrine epoch best remembered as one of the first Russian ambassadors and Peter the Great's agent in Lon ...

, his own son

Carel Isaak de Moor Carel Isaak de Moor (1695, Leiden – 1751, Rotterdam) was an 18th-century painter from the Northern Netherlands. Carel Isaak de Moor was a pupil of his father, Carel de Moor. He also made etchings. He became a teacher himself and taught the an ...

, Arent Pijl, Arnout Rentinck, Nicolaas Six and

Mattheus Verheyden Mattheus Verheyden (1700–1776) was an 18th-century painter from the Northern Netherlands. Biography Verheyden was born in Breda. According to the RKD he was the son of the painter Franck Pietersz Verheyden who died before he could teac ...

.Carel de Moor II
in the

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He died in Leiden or

Warmond Warmond () is a village and former municipality in the Western Netherlands, north of Leiden in the province of South Holland. The municipality covered an area of 14.42 km² (5.57 mile², 30.7%) of which 4.42 km² (1.71 mile²) is water; ...

References

* Arthur Mayger Hind,
A History of Engraving & Etching: From the 15th Century to the Year 1914
', Courier Dover Publications, 1963, reprint of 1923 ed., p. 186, 1655 births 1738 deaths Artists from Leiden Dutch Golden Age painters Dutch male painters Painters from Leiden {{Netherlands-painter-stub