Antoine Coypel

Antoine Coypel

male, deceased (1722)
Antoine Coypel, son of the French painter Noël Coypel, was still more celebrated than his father. Antoine studied under his father, with whom he s...
Jean-Baptiste Pigalle

Jean-Baptiste Pigalle

male, deceased (1785)
Jean-Baptiste Pigalle was a French sculptor. He was born in Paris, the seventh child of a carpenter. Although he failed to obtain the "Grand Prix",...
Jean-Baptiste Pater

Jean-Baptiste Pater

male, deceased (1736)
Jean-Baptiste Pater was a French rococo painter. Born in Valenciennes, Pater was the son of sculptor Antoine Pater and studied under him before...
Joseph Duplessis

Joseph Duplessis

male, deceased (1802)
Joseph-Siffred Duplessis was a French painter, known for the clarity and immediacy of his portraits. He was born into a family with an artistic...

François Lemoyne

male, deceased (1737)
François Lemoyne or François Le Moine was a French rococo painter. He was born in Paris. In 1701, when he was 13 years old, he entered the Ac...
Jean-Baptiste Huet

Jean-Baptiste Huet

male, deceased (1811)
Jean-Baptiste Marie Huet was a French painter, engraver and designer associated with pastoral and genre scenes of animals in the Rococo manner,...
Jean Raoux

Jean Raoux

male, deceased (1734)
Jean Raoux, French painter, was born at Montpellier. After the usual course of training he became a member of the Academy in 1717 as an historical...
Laurent de la Hyre

Laurent de la Hyre

male, deceased (1656)
Laurent de La Hyre (February 27, 1606 - December 28, 1656) was a French Baroque painter, born in Paris. He became a pupil of Jean-Baptiste...

Sébastien Bourdon

male, deceased (1671)
Sébastien Bourdon was a French painter and engraver, the son of a Protestant painter on glass at Montpellier; his "chef d'œuvre" is "The Cr...

Alexandre-François Desportes

male, deceased (1743)
Alexandre-François Desportes was a French painter and decorative designer who specialised in animals. He studied in Paris, in the studio of the F...