Discover painter, draftsperson, director of academy Nicolas de Largillière

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: Largillierre, Nicolas de
Laselierre, Nicolaes de

Qualifications: painter, draftsperson, director of academy, court painter

Nationality/school: French, South Netherlandish
second generation Flemish immigrant

Born: Paris 1656-10/1656-10-10
christened on October 10, 1656 (Rombouts/Van Lerius 1872, vol.2 p. 386)

Deceased: Paris 1746-03-30

Family relationships this field records any family relationship to one or more other artist(s).: son of Antoon Largillière, milliner, merchant in Antwerp and Maria Mignon. Married 14 September 1699 to Maria-Elisabeth Forest, daughter of the painter Jan Forest, peintre du Roy. They had three children: Elisabeth-Margarita (23 January 1701), Margarita Elisabeth (27 March 1703) and Nicolaes (21 August 1704) (Rombouts/Van Lerius 1872, p. 386).

See also In this field, you will find references to names of groups or to the artists that made/make up groups. You may also come across references to other artists if there was/is question of collaboration without a joint name. This is the case, for instance, with artists who rendered parts of works by other artists (such as with P.P Rubens and J. Brueghel I).

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36 hits in RKDimages as artist
10 hits in RKDlibrary as subject
6 hits in RKDexcerpts as artist

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Biographical information

Education: Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture (Parijs)

Active in

Groot-Brittannië
for study
Antwerpen (stad) 1662 - 1674-09-18
apprentice in the Guild of St. Luke, Antwerp between 18 September 1668 and 18 September 1669, master between 18 September 1673 and 18 September 1674 (Rombouts/Van Lerius 1872/1961, esp. p. 386-387, note 4)
Londen (Engeland) 1675 - 1679
second stay in England: fled because of anti-Catholic violence at the time of the Rye House Plot
Parijs 1680 - 1746
see for his beginnings in Paris: Richefort 1986, p. 71
Londen (Engeland) 1686 - 1688
invited by James II to come to England (for the third time), but left again after the Glorious Revolution of 1688
Parijs

Teacher at academy/university: Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture (Parijs)
director in 1734-1735 and 1738-1742

born in

active in

died in

Connections with other artists

Pupil of This field mentions the names of teachers or masters. What is at issue are the teachers who made a significant contribution to the development of a students, as opposed to every instructor they ever had. See also the 'Education' field.: Goubau, Anton
Lely, Peter
between 18 September 1668 and 18 September 1669 with Anton Goubau (lit. 1857 and Rombouts/Van Lerius 1872/1961, vol.2, p. 389)
Teacher of This field mentions the names of pupils. What is at issue are the pupils who were significantly influenced by a teacher as opposed to every student someone ever had. See also the 'Education' field.: Descamps, Jean Baptiste (I)
Fiedler, Johann Christian
Hengst, Willem
Jouvenet, François (II)
Delyen, Jacques François
Millot, Henri
Nikitin, Ivan Nikitič
Oudry, Jacques Charles
Oudry, Jean Baptiste
Plumier, Edmond
Rivière, François
Schuppen, Jacob van
Trinquesse, Louis Rolland
Followed by This field mentions the artist’s emulators. Although students can naturally also be followers, they are not mentioned again here. What is meant by followers are those who continue to work in the spirit of a predecessor. Sometimes this may happen a century later; there is no time limit. What is at issue, however, is that someone’s oeuvre must substantially follow in the manner of the artist emulated.: Mányoki, Ádám
Influenced by In contrast with ‘follower of’, we speak of ‘influenced by’ when an artist was influenced outside the context of an educational setting or servile following. An artist can be influenced by several artists at once, or in succession. In addition, there may be question of a transition to a personal style which may demonstrate development.: Beijeren, Abraham van
Claeuw, Jacques de
Fijt, Joannes
Utrecht, Adriaen van
Berchem, Nicolaes
Verelst, Simon
Influence on This field specifies the artists influenced by the artist in question, without there being question of an educational setting or servile following.: Fiedler, Johann Christian
Rusca, Carlo Francesco
Clementi, Maria Giovanni Battista
Baziray
Piane, Giovanni Maria dalle

Subjects This field specifies the various subject categories or genres that constitute the oeuvre of the artist in question. The contents of this field are generally based more on the documentation available at the RKD than on the literature.: history (genre), landscape (genre), portrait, still life, fruit piece

Medium/technique: oil paint

Literature

Literature in RKDLibrary: 10 hits in RKDlibrary as subject

Rombouts/Van Lerius 1872/1961 , vol. 2, p. 224, 386***, 389, 429, 434, 469, 490
Walpole et al. 1762/1876 (ed. Wornum) , vol. 2, p. 193-194
Thieme/Becker 1907-1950 , vol. 22 (1928), p. 382-384
Gerson 1942/1983 , p. 68, 85, 86, 108, 118, 304, 324, 524.
Duclaux/Monnier/Petiet 1967 , passim
Bénézit 1976 , vol. 6, p. 451-453
Witt Checklist 1978 , p. 168
Bajou 1997 , p. 213-217
Bénézit 1999 , vol. 8, p. 280-282
Kollmann 2000 , p. 230
Duverger 1984-2004 , vol. 12 (2002), p. 387, noot 1: wordt genoemd in testament van Anton Goubau betr. een legaat van enkele schilderijen, te weten, 'twee stucxkens schilderije halfflijff d'een een Teurck ende Turckin'

Th. von Frimmel, 'Ein Eigenbildnis des Nicolas de Largillière', Blätter für Gemäldekunde, 4/8 (1908), p. 173-176
B. Cassidy, 'Largillierre's Portrait of Siberechts', The Burlington Magazine 128 (1986), p. 414-416
I. Richefort, 'Nouvelles précisions sur la vie d'Adam François van der Meulen, peintre historiographe de Louis XIV', Bulletin de la société de l'histoire de l'art français 1986, p. 71 en noot 107
M. Lacas, 'La Famille Stoppa de Nicolas de Largilliere', Connaissance des Arts, december 2003, p. 90-93
Th. Fusenig, 'Die Apostelfolge der Kunstsammlung des Bistums Essen – ein Werk des malers Nicolas de Largillière (1656-1746)', Münster am Hellweg 68, (2015), p. 84-95

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Project: Gerson Digital : France (Nachwirkung)

Comment: voor een portret van De Largillière zie: Thienpondt, Carl Friedrich

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