Michiel Carree (1657 - 1727)

Michiel Carree

Michiel Carree of Karé was a Dutch painter and decorator of the Golden Age.

Carree was a famous landscape painter: King Frederick of Prussia invited him to Berlin and appointed him court painter. After the king's death, he returned to Holland and was mainly engaged in decorating the palaces of the noble townspeople. Carrée often depicted livestock in his landscapes, and these paintings can now be seen in the Rotterdam Museum.