French Rococo Era Painter, 1733-1808
French painter, draughtsman, etcher and landscape designer. He was one of the most prolific and engaging landscape painters in 18th-century France. He specialized in architectural scenes in which topographical elements derived from the buildings and monuments of ancient and modern Italy and of France are combined in often fantastic settings or fictitious juxtapositions. The fluid touch and rich impasto employed in his paintings Related Paintings of ROBERT, Hubert :. | The Porta Octavia in Rome | Landscape with Waterfall | Washerwomen in the Ruins of the Colosseum | The Flight | Landscape with Stone Bridge | Related Artists:
John Skinner Prout(1805-76), nephew of the famous English watercolourist Samuel Prout (1783-1852)
Henri Millot(1699 -1756 ) - Painter
Ferdinand Kobell(born in Mannheim, 7 June 1740; died in Munich, 1 February 1799) was a German painter and engraver.
He was studying at the University of Heidelberg when the Elector of Bavaria, admiring a landscape, aided him to devote his entire time to painting. He became the pupil of Peter Verschaffelt. He next studied art in Paris (1768-1769). On his return, he was appointed painter to the Cabinet (court painter), and later professor at the Academy. In 1793, he moved to Munich. He was appointed director of the Mannheim Gallery (1798) but died before entering on his duties.