British c 1750-1802 Related Paintings of Thomas Gooch :. | Crossbow Civic Guard | Fighter | Mademoiselle Romaine Lacaux | Icon of St Nicholas | stea mboats | Related Artists:
John Alonzo WilliamsAmerican , 1869-1951
Willy Baron von Plessen(1712 - 1777)
Alexis Simon Belle (12 January 1674 - 21 November 1734) was a French portrait painter, known for his portraits of the French and Jacobite nobility.
Belle was born in Paris, the second child and only son of Jean-Baptiste Belle (born before 1642, died 1703), also a painter, and of Anne his wife (died 1705).
Belle's birth and baptism are recorded in the parish register of the church of Saint-Sulpice, Paris, and quoted in Eugene Piot's Le Cabinet de l'amateur for the years 1861 and 1862