Spanish Painter, active ca.1506-1526 Related Paintings of YANEZ DE LA ALMEDINA, Fernando :. | Princess | Praying Monk | Younger cuba girl | Portrait of a Man | Richard Coeur de Lion | Related Artists:
Dirck de Quade van Ravesteyn Flemish painter 1565-1620
John Cleveleycirca 1712-77 English painter, born in Southwark, London. Cleveley did not come from an artistic background
Jean-Baptiste DeshaysFrench Baroque Era Painter, 1729-1765
was a French painter of religious and mythological subjects.His first training was under his father, the minor Rouen painter Jean-Dominique Deshays, he then spent a little time under Jean-Baptiste Descamps at his Ecole Gratuite de Dessin. He spent time in Hyacinthe Collin de Vermont's Paris studio from around 1740 to 1749 and Jean Restout II's from late 1749 to 1751. Both these had been pupils of Jean Jouvenet, and painted in the Grand Style of French history painting, a style Deshays adopted as his own. While he was in Restout's studio, Deshays entered the Prix de Rome competition, winning second prize in 1750 with His 1750 Laban Giving his Daughter in Marriage to Jacob won the second prize in the Grand Prix de Rome, and his 1751 Job on the Dung-hill the first prize. Deshays served the compulsory three years training at the Ecole des Eleves Prot??g??s (where he learnt from Carle van Loo, its director, and attracted some religious commissions, including two vast canvases, a Visitation and an Annunciation, for the monastery of the Visitation at Rouen), before going to Rome.
