Emanuel Murant (December 22, 1622 – ca.1700) is a rather unknown Dutch Golden Age painter of landscapes and houses.
Manuel Murant was born in Amsterdam; his father Isaiah had studied in Calvinist Geneva, and became a teacher. The family afterward six children lived adjacent to the scholarly in the Nieuwmarkt (and Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck).
According to Houbraken Manuel was a pupil of Philips Wouwerman in Haarlem, where he assistant professor to paint Italianate landscapes and specialized in village scenes and ruined farmhouses that were hence exact, you could count whatever the bricks. Houbraken moreover mentioned him travelling to France and supplementary places for some years. Back house in 1649 he worked for the Admiralty. In 1654 he married his neighbour. It is not impossible he knew the minor Jan van der Heyden and scholarly how to paint houses. Another of neighbors was Jan van de Capelle.
In 1665 he lived in Naarden. In 1670 he remarried Berberke Willems and contracted in Leeuwarden, where he stayed until his death.
Murant’s brother David had many of his paintings nevertheless in his possession that Houbraken motto when he was writing his record in the 1710s.
Media aligned to Emanuel Murant at Wikimedia Commons
What do you think of the works of Emanuel Murant?
Use the form below to say your opinion about Emanuel Murant. All opinions are welcome!