(1755-1842)
French Elisabeth Louise Vigee Lebrun Galleries Related Paintings of Elisabeth LouiseVigee Lebrun :. | Countess Ecaterina Vladimirovna Apraxine | Marie Antoinette of Austria | Self Portrait in a Straw Hat | Self-Portrait | Princess Elisabeth of France | Related Artists:
Pierre-Adolphe Badinpainted Portrait of Charles Coiffier, in 1837
Mytens, Daniel the ElderDutch- Practiced mainly in England, Approx. 1590-1647
Testelin,HenriFrench , 1616-1695
Painter, printmaker and writer, brother of Louis Testelin. As a member of the circle of Charles Le Brun, he endorsed his connection with the Academie Royale by submitting an allegorical portrait of Louis XIV in Childhood as Patron of the Arts as his morceau de reception. He was secretary of the Acad?mie from 1650 and a professor from 1656. He produced several tapestry cartoons based on designs by Le Brun for the Gobelins, including the Wedding of Louis XIV and Maria-Theresa on 9 June 1660 (before 1665) and the Founding of the Academie des Sciences and the Observatory in 1666. He was active also as a court portrait painter, exhibiting portraits of Louis XIV as Patron of the Academie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture (exh. Salon 1673; Versailles, Cheteau) and of Maria-Theresa, Queen of France . Also at the Salon of 1673 he showed a history painting,