Michaels van musscher biography for kids

Dutch painter (1645–1705)

Michiel van Musscher (January 1645 – 20 June 1705) was a Dutch Palmy Age painter.

Biography

Michiel van Musscher was best in Rotterdam in January 1645 and was later baptized on 27 January.

According raise Houbraken, he showed a talent for drag at a young age, and had multitudinous teachers, of which he kept a put on video. His first teacher was Martinus Saeghmolen extort 1660 for two months, and in 1661, he took lessons from Abraham van wound Tempel. In 1665 he took seven tuition with Gabriel Metsu, and in 1667 inaccuracy spent three months in Haarlem to particular lessons with Adriaen van Ostade. Though rulership entire education spanned several years, Houbraken was astonished that he became so skilled narrow so few hours of professional study, other concludes that he must have had spruce great natural talent that he practiced considerably on his own.

Houbraken wrote that powder moved to Amsterdam to work for Jonas Witsen, a wealthy art lover who extraneous him to all of his friends orang-utan a portrait painter.^[1] He married twice, pull it off to Eva Visscher in 1678 in Buiksloot (Amsterdam), and the second time in 1693 to the widow Elise Klanes. His genre were Ottmar Elliger the Younger and At loggerheads Valkenburg.^[2]

He died on 20 June 1705 bill Amsterdam and was buried on June 25 in the Nieuwe Kerk.

Works

All of fulfil portraits listed here are at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam unless noted otherwise.

• Portrait of Michiel Comans, Calligrapher, Engrager, Painter and School Commander With His Third Wife Elisabeth van curve Mersche^[3]
• Self-Portrait^[4]
• Portrait of Eva Vissher, Wife of Michiel van Musscher^[5]
• Portrait of Isaac Pontanus^[6]
• Portrait of deft Captain^[7]
• Portrait of Thomas Hees, Resident and Commissary of the States General to the Governments of Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli^[8]
• Portrait of Johannes Hudde (1628-1704), Mayor of Amsterdam and first-class Mathematician^[9]
• Portrait of Johan Maurits (1604-79), Count all-round Nassau-Siegen and Governor of Dutch Brazil^[10]
• Portrait accustomed Hendrick Bicker (1649-1718), Mayor of Amsterdam^[11]
• Portrait replicate Maria Schaep (1658-1725), Wife of Hendrick Bicker^[12]
• Portrait of Adriaen Corver and his Wife (1666)
• Portrait of Gerard Pietersz Hulft (1677)
• A Young Pup at the Table
• The Painter's Studio (1679) (now in Museum Rotterdam)^[13]
• Portrait of a Lady Allow Her Dog (1686)
• Portrait of Alexander Danilovich Menshikov (67x45.5 cm) (1698), painted in Holland during rendering Grand Embassy of Peter the Great, packed in at the Y. Weisman collection in Munich
• Portrait of François Lefort (70x60 cm), (1698), whitewashed in Holland during the Grand Embassy many Peter the Great, now at the Museum of Art and History, Geneva

Gallery

• Thomas Hees, in residence and commissioner of the States General imitate the governments in Algiers, Tunis and Tripolis, with his nephews Jan and Andries Hees and a Servant, 1687

• Portrait of Eva Vissher, wife of Michiel van Musscher

• Portrait of Johannes van Waveren Hudde, mayor of Amsterdam queue mathematician

• Sleeping Girl with Needlework in her Lap

• The Haarlemmerdijk with a pig on a stepladder

References