| Frederik de Moucheron | |
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Landscape with a horseman, 1670's. |
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| Birth name | Frederick |
| Born | 1633 Emden |
| Died | 1686 (aged 52–53) Amsterdam |
| Nationality | Netherlands, Germany |
| Field | Landscape painting |
| Movement | Baroque |
Frederik de Moucheron (1633-2 January 1686) was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter.
Frederik de Moucheron was the son of the painter Balthazar de Moucheron and Cornelia van Brouckhoven. His father came from a wealthy family of wine traders and is portrayed as one of the younger sons in the Moucheron Family portrait, 1563. Frederik trained with Jan Asselijn and became a landscape painter. He set off at age 22 for Paris, where he spent 3 years and then after a tour of Antwerp, Paris. and Lyon,[1] he settled in 1659 in Amsterdam. In the same year he married Mariecke de Jouderville there and they had 11 children. He is buried in Amsterdam.[2]
He painted French, Italian, and Dutch landscapes. To finish these scenes, contemporaries specialized in painting figures collaborated with him, such as Adriaen van de Velde in Amsterdam, Theodor Helmbreker in Paris,[3] and at times Johannes Lingelbach, and Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem.
His son Isaac (named after the famous painter in his mother's family who was a Rembrandt pupil) became a popular engraver and painter and many of his landscape wall decorations have survived in Amsterdam.