Flemish painter (b. ca. 1465, Bruxelles, d. after 1538, Antwerpen) Related Paintings of WEYDEN, Goossen van der :. | Niagara Falls | Return of the Peasants from the Fields | The Anunciacion | Sheep 152 | Roses in a Glas Vase | Related Artists:
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jean HuberSwiss Painter (b. 1721, Geneve, d. 1786, Bellevue) ,
Geneva1721-1786
Geneva1721-1786,Silhouettist, painter, draughtsman and printmaker. His paternal ancestors were patrician Genevese merchant bankers. As a young man he soldiered at Kassel in Germany and in Italy, where he fought for Savoy in the War of the Austrian Succession (1740-48). In 1752 he was elected to Geneva's Council of Two Hundred and served his native city as a magistrate. He had no formal artistic training, but from his youth he clipped out of paper or cards freehand profiles of a kind that later came to be called silhouettes.