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Oswald Achenbach was a German landscape painter. Born in Düsseldorf, he received his art education from his brother, Andreas Achenbach. His landscapes generally dwell on the rich and glowing effects of color which drew him to the Bay of Naples and the neighborhood of Rome. He also painted in the Bavarian Alps and Switzerland. From 1863 to 1872, he was professor of landscape painting at the Düsseldorf School. His conception of nature was more ideal than that of his brother. He died in Düsseldorf of an inflammation of the lungs. He is represented at most of the important German galleries of modern art, and many of his pictures are in the United States.

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English painter of Swiss birth. Born into a wealthy and politically influential Huguenot family, Agasse spent his early childhood at the country estate of Crévin, where he developed the interest in animals and natural history that was to guide his later career as an artist. Agasse trained first at the Ecole du Colibri in Geneva and subsequently in Paris under Jacques-Louis David (beginning in 1787) and possibly under Horace Vernet. His early artistic output consisted chiefly of unpretentious silhouette ‘cut-outs’ in the style of Jean-Daniel Huber. At this time he also undertook a serious study of dissection and veterinary science.

Nagler says that he was one of the most celebrated animal painters at the end of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th century. In Meusel's Neue Miscellaneen (viii. 1052 et seq.), he compares Agasse and Wouvermans, wholly in favour of the former. In that partial article much is said of his extreme devotion to art, of his marvelous knowledge of anatomy, of his special fondness for the English racehorses, and his excellence in depicting them. He appears first in the Academy catalogues in 1801 as the exhibitor of the 'Portrait of a Horse', and continued to exhibit more or less until 1845 .

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Jacques-André-Joseph Aved was a French painter of the 18th century and one of the main French Rococo portraitists. He painted the Ottoman Empire ambassador to France in 1742, Mehmed Said Efendi. He was orphaned when he was a little boy. He was raised in Amsterdam by one of his uncles, who was a captain in Dutch Army.
After his training in Amsterdam with Boitard and Picart, Joseph Aved started working in Paris for Belle in 1721. He later entered at the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture in 1731 and he was appointed councillor after graduating in 1734 and in1759, he took part in his last salon. As an art dealer and collector, he owned one of the most important collections with works by Italian, French and specially Dutch artists. This collection was sold at auction in 1766. Carle Van Loo, François Boucher, Dumont le Romain and Chardin were some of his pupils.

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French painter and engraver. A pupil in Paris of Jean Restout II, in 1745 he failed to win the Prix de Rome and at his own expense went to Rome in 1747. The following year Barbault made engravings for the 'Varie vedute di Roma antica e moderna' published in Rome. As a painter he was encouraged by Jean-François de Troy, director of the Académie de France, who commissioned from him 20 small pictures representing characters from the Turkish masquerade organized for the carnival of 1748, of which 11 survive. When, by special favor, he became a pensionnaire at the Académie (1749-53), he made a copy for Louis XIV of Luca Penni's fresco the Baptism of Constantine in the Vatican Stanze.

While travelling in Rome, Abel-François Poisson de Vandières, Marquis de Marigny, commissioned a series of Italian Costumes. In 1751 Barbault depicted the planned procession of the pensionnaires for the carnival in a frieze-like painting, the Masquerade of the Four Corners of the World. Many of Barbault's idealized Roman landscapes date from this period, but above all he wanted to be a painter in the grand manner, painting St François de Sales Placing Jeanne de Chantal under the Protection of St Vincent de Paul (Rome, SS Giovanni e Paolo) for the beatification of Ste Jeanne de Chantal in 1751.

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French painter and engraver. A pupil in Paris of Jean Restout II, in 1745 he failed to win the Prix de Rome and at his own expense went to Rome in 1747. The following year Barbault made engravings for the 'Varie vedute di Roma antica e moderna' published in Rome. As a painter he was encouraged by Jean-François de Troy, director of the Académie de France, who commissioned from him 20 small pictures representing characters from the Turkish masquerade organized for the carnival of 1748, of which 11 survive. When, by special favor, he became a pensionnaire at the Académie (1749-53), he made a copy for Louis XIV of Luca Penni's fresco the Baptism of Constantine in the Vatican Stanze.

While travelling in Rome, Abel-François Poisson de Vandières, Marquis de Marigny, commissioned a series of Italian Costumes. In 1751 Barbault depicted the planned procession of the pensionnaires for the carnival in a frieze-like painting, the Masquerade of the Four Corners of the World. Many of Barbault's idealized Roman landscapes date from this period, but above all he wanted to be a painter in the grand manner, painting St François de Sales Placing Jeanne de Chantal under the Protection of St Vincent de Paul (Rome, SS Giovanni e Paolo) for the beatification of Ste Jeanne de Chantal in 1751.

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