Michiel Carree or Carré (1657 – October 1727) was a

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painter. Carree was born in

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. He received his first instructions from his elder brother Hendrik Carré, and afterwards became the scholar of Nicolaas Berchem, but unfortunately did not profit by the example and practice of so excellent a master, but preferred to follow the style of a much inferior artist named Gabriel van der Leeuw. According to Houbraken he was in England and knew Pieter Gerritsz van Roestraten. Houbraken also stated Carree was the teacher of the painter Jan de Visscher, and mentioned him again as his informant about a portrait by Katharina Rozee.Michiel Carée in Johan Visscher 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 people, Dutch Painting, painter and writer from Dordrecht, now remembered mainly as a biographer of Dutch Golden Age painters. Life Houbraken was sent first to learn ''threadt ...

, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature Houbraken also stated that Michiel Carré resided some time in England, and that his works were not popular here, but

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makes no mention of him in his 'Anecdotes.' He was a landscape painter of some celebrity, since at the death of Abraham Begeyn he was invited to Berlin by the

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, who appointed him one of his painters. On the death of Frederick he returned to Holland, and resided chiefly at

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, where he died in 1728. His greatest merit was the uncommon facility and baldness of his pencil, which was well suited to the works upon which he was principally engaged, the decoration of halls and large apartments. One of his best productions is to be seen in a saloon at

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, where he has represented in a large landscape, the ''History of Jacob and Esau''. Some of his easel paintings, landscapes with cattle, are very good. Examples of these can be found in the Brunswick Gallery, and the Rotterdam Museum. He died in

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mentioned his daughter Alida Carree, who was a good watercolor painter and ivory fan painter. He also mentioned a son Hendrik Carré the Younger who died in the Hague in 1726. According to the RKD he was the son of Franciscus Carré and he worked in Amsterdam 1686-1692, England 1692-1695, and Berlin 1697-1713.Michiel Carrée
in the

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He is known for Italianate landscapes and was court painter in Berlin to

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