1620-1668
Dutch
Quirijn van Brekelenkam Locations Related Paintings of Quirijn van Brekelenkam :. | Man Spinning and Woman Scraping Carrots | Interior with a smoking and a drinking man by a fire. | Woman Combing a Child's Hair | Prayer before the meal. | Interior with angler and man behind a spinning wheel. | Related Artists:
James Lynwood PalmerBritish artist , 1868 - 1941
Charles LebrunFrench Pand art Theorist ,
Paris1619-190
Virtual dictator of the arts in France until the death of Colbert in 1683. He established his reputation by a series of decorative schemes, and his own greatest compositions, which immortalize the achievements of the crown, are at Versailles. He became a founder, rector, chancellor, and finally director of the Academie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture. He was also director of the Gobelins factory and Premier Peintre (1664). His Tent of Darius (1661), for Louis XIV, is a model of legibility, with the explicit and varied gesture and expression of the figures deriving from ideas expressed by Poussin. Lebrun's influential treatise,
Matthieu, Georg DavidGerman, 1737-1778
German painter and engraver. He received his training as a painter from his father, the Prussian court painter David Matthieu (1697-1755), and his stepmother and aunt, the painter Anna Rosina Lisiewska (1713/16-83). He apparently travelled outside Germany and is known to have gone to Stralsund with the painter Philipp Hackert in 1762. His portraits from this period, including one of Princess Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, who married King George III of England,