French Rococo Era Painter, 1685-1766 Related Paintings of Jjean-Marc nattier :. | Madame Adelaide de France Tying Knots | Portrait of Queen Marie Leszczynska | Louise Henriette de Bourbon-Conti, Countess-Duchess of Orleans, as Hebe | Madame Louise of France | Thalia, Muse of Comedy | Related Artists:
Pratt, MatthewAmerican Colonial Era Painter, 1734-1805
.American painter. One of ten children of a goldsmith, he was apprenticed at 15 to his uncle, James Claypoole. He spent almost seven years as an apprentice and eight as a painter of portraits and signs for taverns, shops and counting houses. In 1764 he went to England,
Edward TroyeAmerican Artist .
b.1808 d.1874
American painter of Swiss birth. Before 1822, his father, Jean-Baptiste de Troy, a sculptor of minor fame, moved his family to England, where Edward was instructed in drawing and perhaps painting. The animal painter Jacques-Laurent Agasse knew the family well. Troye wrote in 1857 that he was trained in London by the best masters and stated that he followed the style of George Stubbs and John N. Sartorius. In 1831 Troye arrived in Philadelphia, where he was employed as a magazine illustrator. The following year he exhibited animal subjects at the annual Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts exhibition and rapidly found patrons among racehorse owners. His typical works show motionless, unsaddled and riderless animals against a low horizon
delafontainefödd 8 juli 1621 i Chateau-Thierry, död 13 april 1695 i Paris, var en fransk författare.