painted Loisachtal in 1842-1845   Related Paintings of Ferdinand von Olivier :. | The Testament of Isabella the Catholic | Jeune homme (mk38) | Portrat des Kardinals Bernardino Spada | Scene in the Tavern sg | David Garrick as Richard III |
Related Artists:
Master of the Saint Lucy Legend
Netherlandish Northern Renaissance Painter, 15th Century
BRAKENBURG, Richard
Dutch painter (b. 1650, Haarlem, d. 1702, Haarlem)
Henri Testelin
(Paris, 1616 - The Hague, 1695) was a French art painter. Henri Testelin made portraits of Louis XIV, important persons and events at the French court . Several of his paintings can be seen in the palace of Versailles. The portraits, like the one of the young Louis XIV, show the influence of Jean Nocret and Le Brun. He was secretary of Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture from 1650 and professor from 1656. In 1680 he published a book on art theory and the academy. Testelin was dismissed from the Academy in 1681, because he was proptestant. He left France and went to Holland.