Van UYTTENBROECK Moses

(Hague c. 1590 – c. 1650)

The name of this artist is reported in different ways in the various repertoires in which he is quoted: Mozes van Uitenbroeck, Moyses van Uyt den Broeck, Moses van Van Wtenbrouck, Mozes van Uyttenbrouck. Dutch painter and engraver, younger brother of the painter Jan Matheus Van Wtenbrouck.
Moses was the Master of Anthonie Van der Croos, Dirk Dalens the Elder and other Dutch painters active during the so-called Golden Age.
Both in painting and in engraving, he treated subjects drawn from the Old Testament, from classical mythology and from the Metamorphoses of Ovid, often set in delicate and airy landscapes.
He also represented bacchanalia with music and dance and scenes of erotic taste.