Frederik Muller & Cie

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Biography:

Frederik Muller or Frits Muller (22 July 1817 – 4 January 1881) was a Dutch bibliographer, book seller, and print collector who wrote a catalog of prints he had collected in his historical atlas.

Muller was born in Amsterdam as the son of the Amsterdam professor Samuel Muller and attended the university Athenaeum Illustre. He went to work for his uncle Johannes Muller on the Rokin in Amsterdam, who kept a bibliopolium there. In 1876 he took on Frederik Adama van Scheltema as his partner and they moved to the Nieuwe Doelenstraat 16-18 where they opened the auction house Frederik Muller & Co. They specialized in books and prints, but after Muller died, Scheltema began to deal in oil paintings as well, which gained them international recognition as art connaiseurs. Their name appears often in art provenance records.

Muller died in Amsterdam.

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