Renaissance Artists , 1449-94  Related Paintings of Domenicho Ghirlandaio :. | Wanddekoration | Details of Stigmatisation des Hl.Franziskus | Thronende Madonna mit den Heiligen Sebastian und julianus | Thronende Madonna mit den Heiligen Petrus,Clemens,Sebastian und Paulus | Christus in der Gloriole mit den Heiligen Bendikt,Romuald,Attinea und Grecinana |
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Braquaval Louis
Esquermes 1854-Saimnt-Valery-sur-Somme 1919
August Peters
painted Cottage with lake and mountains in 1847
Philippe Mercier
(also known as Philip Mercier) (Berlin, 1689 - London, 18 July 1760) was a French painter and etcher, who lived principally and was active in England. He was born in Berlin of French extraction, the son of a Huguenot tapestry-worker. He studied painting at the Akademie der Wissenschaften of Berlin[1] and later under Antoine Pesne, who had arrived in Berlin in 1710. Later, he traveled in Italy and France before arriving in Londone"recommended by the Court at Hannover"eprobably in 1716. He married in London in 1719 and lived in Leicester Fields. He was appointed principal painter and librarian to the Prince and Princess of Wales at their independent establishment in Leicester Fields, and while he was in favor he painted various portraits of the Royalties, and no doubt many of the nobility and gentry. Of the Royal portraits, those of the Prince of Wales and of his three sisters, painted in 1728, were all engraved in mezzotint by Jean Pierre Simon, and that of the three elder children of the Prince of Wales by the John Faber Junior in 1744. This last was a typical piece of Mercier's composition, the children being made the subject of a spirited, if somewhat childish, allegory in their game of play. Prince George is represented with a firelock on his shoulder, teaching a dog his drill, while his little brother and sister are equally occupied in a scene that is aptly used to point a patriotic