Frederik de Moucheron (1633 – 5 January 1686) was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter and draughtsman. He mainly produced (Italianate) landscapes that were furnished with human and animal figures by various colleagues.

Biography

Frederik de Moucheron was the son of the painter Balthazar de Moucheron and Cornelia van Brouckhoven. His father came from a wealthy family of merchants and wine traders and is portrayed as one of the younger sons in the family portrait of Pierre de Moucheron (1583). Frederik trained with

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and became a landscape painter. He set off at age 22 for

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, where he spent three years and made a tour to

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, Italy and Greece. In 1659 he settled in Amsterdam ( Jordaan) and married Mariecke de Jouderville, the daughter of

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; they had eight children when he died. He is buried in Amsterdam. In 1719 his widow died in

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. He painted French, Italian, and Dutch landscapes. To finish these scenes, contemporaries specialized in painting figures collaborated with him, such as

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in ''De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen'' (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the

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and at times

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, and

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. De Moucheron's son

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, named after his grandfather who was a Rembrandt pupil, became a popular engraver and painter, with many of his landscape wall decorations surviving in Amsterdam. The engraver

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copied one of his works, a landscape with view on a lake.

References

External links

Site in Dutch with several paintings by Moucheron

A landscape with figures, duck shooting
{{DEFAULTSORT:Moucheron, Frederik De Dutch Golden Age painters Dutch male painters 1633 births 1686 deaths People from Emden