(1755-1842) French Elisabeth Louise Vigee Lebrun Galleries   Related Paintings of Elisabeth LouiseVigee Lebrun :. | Madame Vigee Le Brun et sa fille | Comtesse de la Chatre | Varvara Ivanovna Narishkine nee Ladomirsky | Self Portrait in a Straw Hat | Countess Ecaterina Vladimirovna Apraxine |
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Alexei Venezianov
1780-1847
Johann Zoffany
German (Resident in Britain) 1734-1810 Johann Zoffany Galleries Painter of portraits, conversation pieces, and theatrical scenes, Zoffany was born in Germany and came to England about 1758 after studying in Italy. He began by painting clock faces and doing hack work, before turning to painting theatrical scenes, especially depicting David Garrick. He was favoured by the royal family. George III nominated him for the Royal Academy in 1769 and recommended him to the duke of Tuscany.
BAUGIN, Lubin
French painter. He became a master in the painters' guild of Saint-Germain-des-Pr?s in 1629. From c. 1636 he was in Italy, but he is known to have been in Paris again in 1641; in 1645 he became a member of the Acad?mie de St Luc, and in 1651 he was also a member of the Acad?mie Royale after the temporary amalgamation of the two institutions. Like many of his generation he was deeply influenced by the art of the Fontainebleau school. The Mannerist tendency of his style