Michiel Carree

'Michiel Carree or Carré was born at Amsterdam in 1666. 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. Houbraken states that Michiel Carré resided some time in England, and that his works were not popular here, but Horace Walpole 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 King of Prussia, who appointed him one of his painters. On the death of Frederick he returned to Holland, and resided chiefly at Alkmaar, 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 the Hague, 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.

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This article incorporates text from the article "CARRE, Michiel" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886-1889 publication now in the public domain.

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Name	Carree, Michiel
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Date of birth	1666
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Date of death	1728
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