American Painter, 19th Century  Related Paintings of Dixon, Maria :. | Asian Still Life with Blue Vase, oil painting by Hubert Vos | The Conspiracy of the Batavians | Glory of Spain | Interior of a Collectors Gallery of Paintings and Objets dArt | Damenportrat Anna Maria Holzmann in Zuger Burgertracht |
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VARIN, Quentin
French Painter, ca.1570-1634 French painter. He was the son of a shoemaker and from 1597 to 1600 was in the papal territory of Avignon, where he worked with a local painter, Pierre Duplan ( fl late 16th century), enrolling also in the local painters' guild. By 1607 he had returned to northern France, and he was married that year at Amiens. In 1612 he was working in the Norman village of Les Andelys, and there he became Nicolas Poussin's first master. For the Gothic church of Notre-Dame, Le Grand Andely, he produced in 1612 a Martyrdom of St Vincent, a Martyrdom of St Clarus and a Regina Coeli (all in situ), the works that provided Poussin with his first contact with contemporary painting. These are the earliest fixed points in Varin's oeuvre, although a ruined Rock of the Philosophers (Rouen, Mus. B.-A.), reminiscent of such late 16th-century French Mannerist painters as Antoine Caron,
Elizabeth Louise Vigee Le Brun
French Neoclassical Painter, 1755-1842
Mathieu le Nain
1607 - 1677