Artist

Livio Mehus

Portrait of Livio Mehus
Portrait of Livio Mehus

Habsburg Netherlands, 1630–1691

Livio Mehus was a Habsburg Netherlands Early Baroque Italian painter. 6 works are cataloged here, principally at Statens Museum for Kunst, most of them oil paintings. Livio Mehus was born in Oudenaarde.

Lieven Mehus or Livio Mehus (1630, in Oudenaarde – 7 August 1691, in Florence) was a Flemish painter, draughtsman and engraver of the Baroque period, who trained and worked in Italy. He was mainly active in Florence where he was court painter of Prince Mattias de' Medici. During his lifetime he enjoyed a high reputation for his allegorical and mythological scenes, landscapes, religious works and portraits.

Works by Livio Mehus

Collections represented

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