painted Romantic Rhine landscape with ruin at sunset in 19th century
Related Paintings of Pieter Lodewyk Kuhnen :. | Design | Autumn | The Ford ar | Frau am Chiemsee | St Peter Freed from Prison sg | Related Artists:
orneore metelliMartin, JohnEnglish Romantic Painter, 1789-1854
Jean RancFrench portraits painter, 1674-1735
French painter, active also in Spain. His father was the painter Antoine Ranc (1634-1716), under whom he must have trained. From 1697 he lived in Paris, where he continued his apprenticeship in Hyacinthe Rigaud's studio. After working for some years as Rigaud's assistant, he joined the Academie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture in Paris in 1703 and reached the rank of academician as a portrait painter in 1707. As Rigaud's protege he worked for the French court, painting portraits of Louis XV (1718; Versailles, Cheteau) and almost certainly other members of the royal family as well as of the aristocracy. He also painted some allegorical and mythological works, such as Vertumnus and Pomona