French 1758-1823 Pierre Paul Prud'hon Gallery   Related Paintings of Pierre-Paul Prud hon :. | Portrait of Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord | Portrat der Kaiserin Josephine | Portrat der Kaiserin Josephine | Empress Josephine | the schimmelpenninck family |
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Carl Wagner
1796-1867
CONGNET, Gillis
Flemish painter (b. ca. 1538, Antwerpen, d. 1599, Hamburg) Flemish painter. The son of a goldsmith of the same name, he trained as a painter with Lambert Wenselyns ( fl 1553) and possibly also with Antoon van Palermo (1503 or 1513-c. 1589), an Antwerp art dealer in whose house he lived (van Mander). In 1561 he became a free master in the Antwerp Guild of St Luke. Shortly afterwards he travelled to Italy, going first to Naples and Sicily and then to Terni, where he made frescoes with a painter named Stello. In 1568 he was registered as a member of the Accademia in Florence. He must have returned to Antwerp in 1570, for between that year and 1585 his name appears in the register of the city's Guild of St Luke, of which he became Dean in 1585. A year later, on the arrival of Alessandro Farnese,
Josehp Bruggemann
painted Vista do Desterro in 1867