- Peter Lely
Sir Peter Lely (14 September, 1618 - 30 November, 1680) was a painter of Dutch origin. He was the most popular portrait artist in England from soon after he arrived in the country in the 1640s to his death. He also owned a major collection of art, especially drawings by other artists. Lely was born Pieter van der Faes to Dutch parents in Soest in Westphalia, where his father was an officer serving in the armed forces of the Elector of Brandenburg. - Philippe Phebus Dubois
Philippe Phébus Dubois started painting at the age of 30. During several years he studied the art of painting and drawing. Between 1989 en 1990 he spent a lot of time in Amsterdam, studying the work of Vincent Van Gogh. In the nineties his work evolved to more abstract art. In December 1998 he exposed his abstract work for the first time in the museum of Tubize (Belgium). Phébus currently lives and works in Brussels. (Brigitte Descartes, Doctor of Philosophy/History of Art.) - Nadège Le Gueu
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Jean-Baptiste Oudry was a French Rococo painter, engraver and tapestry designer. He is particularly well known for his images of animals and his hunt pieces depicting game. Oudry was the son of Jacques Oudry, a painter and art dealer in Paris, and of his wife Nicole Papillon, who belonged to the family of the engraver Jean-Baptist-Michel Papillon. His father was a director of the "Académie de St-Luc" art school, which Oudry joined. - Antoine Coysevox
Charles Antoine Coysevox (September 29, 1640 - October 10, 1720), French sculptor, was born at Lyon, and belonged to a family which had emigrated from Spain. The name should be pronounced "Cozevo". - Nicolas Coustou
Nicolas Coustou was a French sculptor and academic. He was the son of a woodcarver, who gave him his first instruction in art. At eighteen he moved to Paris, to study under C.A. Coysevox, his mother's brother, who presided over the recently-established Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture; and at twenty-three he gained the Colbert prize, which entitled him to four years education at the French Academy at Rome. - Israel Silvestre
Israel Silvestre, called the Younger to distinguish him from his father, was a prolific French draftsman, etcher and print dealer who specialized in topographical views and perspectives of famous buildings. Orphaned at an early age, he was taken in by his uncle in Paris, Israel Henriet, an etcher and printseller, and friend of Callot. Between 1630 and 1650 Silvestre travelled widely in France and Italy, which he visited three times, … - Jean-Baptiste Perronneau
Jean-Baptiste Perronneau (Paris, c. 1715-Amsterdam, 19 November 1783) was a French painter who specialized in portraits executed in pastels. Perronneau began his career as an engraver, apparently studying with Laurent Cars, whose portrait he drew, and working for the printseller Huquier, rue Saint-Jacques, Paris, making his first portraits in oils, and especially in pastels, in the 1740s. His career was much in the shadow of the master of the French pastel portrait, … - Jacques Roettiers
Jacques Roettiers was a noted engraver in England and France, and one of the most celebrated Parisian goldsmiths and silversmiths of his day. Roettiers was born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, near Paris, to Norbert Roettiers (1665-1727) and his wife Winifred Clarke, niece of John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough. As a Roettiers, he was born into a distinguished family of medallists, engravers, and goldsmiths. - Jean Jouvenet
Jean-Baptiste Jouvenet was a French painter He came from an artistic family, one of whom Noel Jouvenet may have taught Nicolas Poussin. He early showed remarkable aptitude for his profession, and, on arriving in Paris, attracted the attention of Le Brun, by whom he was employed at Versailles, and under whose auspices, in 1675, he became a member of the "Académie royale", of which he was elected professor in 1681, and one of the four perpetual rectors in 1707. - Jacques Prou
Jacques Prou was a French Academic Baroque sculptor, a product of the Academy system overseen by Charles Le Brun. Trained in the Academy school in Paris,. he spent four years (1676-80) refining his style at the French Academy in Rome, then returned to Paris to become a member of the team of the "Bâtiments du Roi" from 1681, providing sculpture for Versailles in the atelier of Jean-Baptiste Tuby, whose daughter he married. - Louis Lerambert
Louis Lerambert was a French sculptor in a numerous Parisian family of four generations of court artists who in 1637 inherited the court position caring for the Antiquities and Marbles of the King, which had become hereditary in his family. He trained in the atelier of Simon Vouet, recently returned from Rome; there he met the sculptor Jacques Sarazin. Louis Lerambert received court commissions under Louis XIII and Louis XIV of France in the three current sculptural genres, … - Etienne Le Hongre
Etienne Le Hongre was a French sculptor, part of the team that worked for the "Bâtiments du Roi" at Versailles, part of the first generation of sculptors formed by the precepts of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture. At the Bain des Nymphes (1678-80) he was one of the sculptors providing lead bas-reliefs for the fountain setting that featured the work of François Girardon. Le Hongre provided other bronze figures for the "Parterre d'Eau". - Louis-Simon Boizot
Louis-Simon Boizot was a French sculptor whose models for biscuit figures for Sèvres porcelain are better-known than his large-scale sculptures. Boizot was the son of Antoine Boizot, a designer at the Gobelins manufacture of tapestry. At sixteen, he became a student at the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture and worked in the atelier of the sculptor René-Michel Slodtz (1705-1764), with whom Houdon also trained. - Jean-Baptiste Stouf
Jean-Baptiste Stouf, a pupil of Guillaume II Coustou, son of the great French baroque sculptor Guillaume Coustou, was a French sculptor known especially for his commemorative portrait busts and expressive emotional content. His "Bust of Belisarius" at the J. Paul Getty Museum shows the general of Justinian, blinded, as a beggar, in a manner that suggests a philosopher or saint. His reception piece for the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture, 1785, … - Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer
Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer (12 January 1636 — 20 February 1699) was a Franco-Flemish painter who specialised in flower pieces. He was attached to the Gobelins tapestry workshops and the Beauvais tapestry workshops, too, where he produced cartoons of fruit and flowers for the tapestry-weavers, and at Beauvais was one of three painters who collaborated to produce cartoons for the suite "The Emperor of China". He was born at Lille, but was in Paris by 1650, … - François-André Vincent
François-André Vincent was a French neoclassical painter. He was the son of the miniaturist François-Elie Vincent and studied under Joseph-Marie Vien. He travelled to Rome, where he won the "Prix de Rome" in 1768. From 1771 to 1775 he studied there at the "Académie de France". In 1790 Vincent was appointed master of drawings to Louis XVI of France, and in 1792 he became a professor at the "Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture" in Paris. - Comte de Caylus
Anne-Claude-Philippe de Tubières-Grimoard de Pestels de Lévis, comte de Caylus, marquis d'Esternay, baron de Bransac (October 31, 1692-September 5, 1765), French archaeologist and man of letters, was born at Paris. He was the eldest son of Lieutenant-General Count de Caylus. His mother, Marthe-Marguerite ("née") Le Valois de Villette de Mursay, comtesse de Caylus (1673-1729), was the daughter of vice-admiral Philippe, Marquis de Villette-Mursay. - Guillaume Coustou The Elder
Guillaume Coustou the Elder (November 29, 1677, Lyon - February 22, 1746, Paris) was a French sculptor and academician. Coustou was the younger brother of French sculptor Nicolas Coustou and the pupil of his mother's brother, Antoine Coysevox. Like his brother, he was employed by Louis XIV and Louis XV. He won the Colbert prize, as had his brother, which gave him a four-year scholarship at the French Academy in Rome; but refusing to submit to the rules of the Academy, … - Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo
Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo was a French painter of allegorical scenes and portraits. He studied under his father, the painter Jean-Baptiste van Loo, at Turin and Rome, where in 1738 he won the Prix de Rome, then at Aix-en-Provence, before returning to Paris in 1745. He was invited to join the "Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture" in 1747, and that year he married his cousin Marie-Marguerite Lebrun, daughter of the painter Michel Lebrun (died 1753). - Pierre Le Gros The Elder
Pierre Le Gros the Elder was a French sculptor whose output was largely absorbed by the decoration of the château and the gardens of Versailles, often working to designs provided by Charles Le Brun and collaborating with other sculptors of the Bâtiments du Roi. His son, Pierre Le Gros the Younger worked almost entirely in Rome. The elder Le Gros was a pupil of Jacques Sarrazin. - Jean-Baptiste van Loo
Jean-Baptiste van Loo (14 January 1684 - 19 December 1745) was a French subject and portrait painter. He was born at Aix-en-Provence, and was instructed in art by his father Louis-Abraham van Loo. Having at an early age executed several pictures for the decoration of the church and public buildings at Aix, he was employed on similar work at Toulon, which he was obliged to leave during the siege of 1707. He was patronized by the prince of Carignan, who sent him to Rome, … - Louis-Michel van Loo
Louis-Michel van Loo was a French painter. He studied under his father, the painter Jean-Baptiste van Loo, at Turin and Rome, and he won a prize at the "Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture" in Paris in 1725. With his uncle, the painter Charles-André van Loo, he went to Rome in 1727-1732, and in 1736 he became court painter to Philip V of Spain at Madrid, where he was a founder-member of the Academy in 1752. - Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-Le Brun
Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-Le Brun was a French painter, and is recognized as the most famous woman painter of the eighteenth century. Her style is neoclassical in exhibiting ideals of simplicity and purity. Her work can also be considered Rococo in its grace, delicacy, and naturalism. She was born in Paris, Marie Élisabeth-Louise Vigée, the daughter of a painter, from whom she received her first instruction, … - Martin Desjardins
Martin Desjardins or Martin van der Bogaert was a French sculptor and stuccoist of Dutch birth, whose early training was at Anvers but whose mature career was spent at Paris, where he was working from the 1650s. His early Paris work was in decorative stucco reliefs, at the Hôtel d’Aubert de Fontenay (Hôtel Salé) and the Hôtel de Beauvais (staircase). He was accepted into the Académie de St Luc as "Martin Desjardins" in 1661, … - Nicolas-André Monsiau
Nicolas-André Monsiau was a French history painter and a refined draughtsman who turned to book illustration to supplement his income when the French Revolution disrupted patronage. His cool "Poussiniste" drawing style and coloring marked his conservative art in the age of Neoclassicism. His training at the school of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture, Paris, was under the direction of Jean-François-Pierre Peyron. - François Lespingola
François Lespingola was a French sculptor in the team that provided original sculptures, vases and copies after the Antique for the gardens at Versailles. From 1665 until 1675, Lespignola was a student in Rome at the Académie de France. In 1675, he became a member of the Accademia di San Luca. Once he returned to France, Lespingola was received as a member of the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture in 1676. - Pierre Julien
Pierre Julien was a French sculptor who worked in a full range of rococo and neoclassical styles. He served an early apprenticeship at Le Puy, near his natal village of Saint-Paulien, then at the École de dessin of Lyon, then entered the Parisian atelier of Guillaume Coustou the Younger. In 1765 he won a Prix de Rome for sculpture with a bas-relief panel of a subject from Antiquity and entered the "École royale des élèves protégés", … - René-Michel Slodtz
René-Michel Slodtz or Michelangelo and in France, Michel-Ange Slodtz was a French sculptor working in a Rococo style, and active mainly in Rome and Paris, and for the Menus-Plaisirs du Roi. He passed seventeen years at Rome, where he was chosen to execute a statue of "St Bruno" (1744) for a niche in the nave of St Peter's. The statue captures the saint's refusal of the bishop's mitre and staff when offered by a cherub, … - Adélaïde Labille-Guiard
Adélaïde Labille-Guiard was a French history and portrait painter. Born in Paris, the daughter of a haberdasher, she studied miniature painting with François-Elie Vincent and oils with his son François-André. Her early works were exhibited at the Académie de Saint-Luc, and after it closed in 1776, at the Salon de la Correspondance. She married Louis-Nicolas Guiard in 1769, but separated from him in 1777. Thereafter, she earned a living by teaching painting. - Claude-Henri Watelet
Claude-Henri Watelet (28 August 1718 — 12 January 1786 was a rich French "fermier-général" who was an amateur painter, a well-respected etcher, a writer on the arts and a connoisseur of gardens. Watelet's inherited privilege of farming taxes in the Orléanais left him free to pursue his avocations, art and literature and gardens. His "Essai sur les jardins", 1774, firmly founded on English ideas expressed by Thomas Whately, … - Guillaume Coustou The Younger
Guillaume Coustou the Younger (March 19, 1716 - July 13, 1777), was a French sculptor. The son of Guillaume Coustou the Elder and nephew of Nicolas Coustou, he trained in the family atelier and studied at the French Academy in Rome, 1736-39, as winner of the Prix de Rome (1735). He returned to Paris, where he completed the famous "Horse Tamers" ("Chevaux de Marly") commissioned from his father in 1739 for Marly, … - Christophe-Gabriel Allegrain
Christophe-Gabriel Allegrain was a French sculptor who tempered a neoclassical style with Rococo charm and softness, under the influence of his much more famous brother-in-law, Jean-Baptiste Pigalle. Allegrain was born into a well-established family of landscape painters of Paris. His single most famous work, a marble "Bather" ("La Baigneuse"), … - Anne Claude Philippe De Tubieres De de Levis Comte de Caylus
Anne-Claude-Philippe de Tubières-Grimoard de Pestels de Lévis, comte de Caylus, marquis d'Esternay, baron de Bransac (October 31, 1692-September 5, 1765), French archaeologist and man of letters, was born at Paris. He was the eldest son of Lieutenant-General Count de Caylus. His mother, Marthe-Marguerite ("née") Le Valois de Villette de Mursay, comtesse de Caylus (1673-1729), was the daughter of vice-admiral Philippe, Marquis de Villette-Mursay. - Sébastien Slodtz
Sébastien Slodtz was a French sculptor, the father of a trio of brothers who helped shape official French sculpture between the Baroque and the Rococo. He was born at Antwerp and joined the Paris workshop of François Girardon, under whose direction he worked for the sculptural decor of Versailles and its gardens and for the Tuileries. Sébastien Slodtz was the outstanding sculptor to come out of Girardon's atelier (Souchal 1968). - François-Elie Vincent
François-Elie Vincent was a Swiss painter of portrait miniatures. He was born in Geneva. He moved to Paris where he painted and taught. Among his pupils were his son, François-André Vincent, a notable painter and a leader of the neoclassical movement, and Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, one of the first women to enter the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture in Paris. - Gabriel François Doyen
Gabriel François Doyen, French painter, was born at Paris. His passion for art prevailed over his father's wish, and he became in his twelfth year a pupil of Charles-André van Loo. Making rapid progress, he obtained at twenty the Grand Prix, and in 1748 set out for Rome. He studied the works of Annibale Caracci, Pietro Berrettini da Cortona, Giulio Romano and Michelangelo, then visited Naples, Venice, Bologna and other Italian cities, and in 1755 returned to Paris. - Jacques Foucquet
Jacques Foucquet, was a French artist primarily active in Sweden. Before becoming active as a painter in Stockholm, Sweden, Jacques Foucquet was employed as an officer and engineer in the court of Louis XIV. He was educated at Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture in Paris, and heavily influenced by Charles Le Brun. He arrived in Sweden in 1694 with a group of other French artists, on the invitiation of Nicodemus Tessin the Younger, … - Sigrid Schultz
Sigrid Schultz was a notable American reporter and war correspondent in an era when women were a rarity in both print and radio journalism. Schultz was born in Chicago, Illinois. Her parents were of Norwegian ancestry, and her father was a well-known painter who had studied at the "Académie de peinture et de sculpture" in Paris, France. - Jean-Baptiste Pater
Jean-Baptiste Pater was a French rococo painter. Born in Valenciennes, Pater was the son of sculptor Antoine Pater and studied under him before becoming a student of Antoine Watteau. He was accepted into the Académie in 1728. His most prominent customer was Frederick the Great, who sat for two portraits in the "Turquerie" style: "LeSultan au Harem" and "Le Sultan au Jardin".
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