circa 1645-1694  Related Paintings of Willem Romeijn :. | The Grand Jatte of Sunday afternoon | Sunlight on the Coast, | Der Jager des Nestes | Madonna del Ceppo | The Milliner |
Related Artists:
F Usher De Voll
1873-1941
Michael Zeno Diemer
painted The Ahırkapı Lighthouse in 1906 - 1907
LANCRET, Nicolas
French painter (b. 1690, Paris, d. 1743, Paris). French painter, draughtsman and collector. He was one of the most prolific and imaginative genre painters of the first half of the 18th century in France, and, although after his death he was long regarded as a follower and imitator of Antoine Watteau, his work is markedly personal and often innovative. He began training as an engraver but soon apprenticed himself to Pierre Dulin (1669-1748), a moderately successful history painter; by 1708 he had enrolled as a student at the Academie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture, Paris. At an unknown date he entered the workshop of the genre and decorative painter Claude Gillot, who had been Watteau's master. This move signalled an important change of direction away from the history painting pursued by his friend Francois Lemoyne. Two contemporary biographers, Ballot de Sovot and D?zallier D'Argenville