Emanuel Murant

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 with six children lived next to the school in the Nieuwmarkt (and Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck).

According to Houbraken Manuel was a pupil of Philips Wouwerman in Haarlem, where he learned to paint Italianate landscapes and specialized in village scenes and ruined farmhouses that were so exact, you could count all the bricks.

It is not impossible he knew the young Jan van der Heyden and learned how to paint houses.