Fredericus van Rossum du Chattel

Fredericus Jacobus van Rossum du Chattel was a Dutch landscape painter who worked primarily with watercolours. The son of an amateur artist, du Chattel took up painting in his youth and received a royal scholarship to study in The Hague in 1873. Apprenticing to Willem Maris, he exhibited his first work two years later, which was positively received. Winning several prizes at exhibitions throughout Europe, in the 1880s du Chattel developed a reputation as a painter of the Vecht River. In 1908, he travelled to the Dutch East Indies, where he captured the landscapes of Java and Sumatra and held several exhibitions. At the time of his death, works by du Chattel were held in several museums.

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