De Moucheron was born in Emden and was probably taught by Jan Asselijn in Amsterdam. He was active in Paris and Lyon in the 1650s. By 1659 he had settled in Amsterdam, where he died. He painted mostly landscapes; although he never went to Italy, many of his paintings depict the golden light and classical ruins typical of Italianate views.
Frederick de Moucheron
1633 - 1686
Paintings by Frederick de Moucheron
Frederick de Moucheron was one of a number of seventeenth-century Dutch artists who specialised in painting idyllic scenes of people with their animals among the antique ruins of the Campagna (the countryside around Rome).Here, a woman sits upright, holding a baby, while a man with his back to us...
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This idyllic Italian garden with its elegant figures, classical sculptures and tall, slender Mediterranean trees is a product of Frederick de Moucheron’s imagination. As far as we know he never visited Italy, but the picture is probably based on drawings and sketches by artists who had. De Mouche...