Claude Gellée, also known as Claude Lorrain, was born around 1600 in the Duchy of Lorraine. As a young man he travelled to Italy and was apprenticed as a painter in Naples and Rome Photograph: Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
He soon became well-known as an exceptional painter of landscapes and seascapes Photograph: Trustees of the ninth Duke of Buccleuch's Chattels Fund
Many of his paintings set characters from classical myth or the Bible deep in European landscapes Photograph: Kunsthalle, Hamburg
Photograph: British Museum
Photograph: Private Collection, Great Britain
Photograph: Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
Photograph: Trustees of the ninth Duke of Buccleuch's Chattels Fund
Photograph: Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
