Gerard Gustaaf Muller

Gerard Gustaaf Muller (20 January 1861 – 26 March 1929) was a Dutch Impressionist painter associated with the Tachtigers literary movement. His later works show elements of Orientalism.

Biography His father, Johan Werner Anton Muller, was a ship owner. He had two older brothers; Hendrik (1855-1927), a writer, and , an architect. From 1880 to 1884, he studied at the Rijksakademie with August Allebé. While there, Hendrik introduced him and his friends, Jacobus van Looy and Jan Veth, to a group called "Flanor", precursor of the Tachtiger (Eighties) movement.

From 1884 to 1888, he studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp with Charles Verlat.

Selected paintings