Scottish , 1734-1804 Related Paintings of Francis Sartorius :. | 'Eclipse' with Jockey up walking the Course for the King's Plate 1776 | The Race For The King's Plate at Newmarket,6th May 1797,Won By 'Tottenridge' | The Racehorse 'Horizon' Held by a Groom by a Building | The Racehorse 'Basilimo' Held by a Groom on a Racecourse | Lord Lonsdale's Favorite Gig | Related Artists:
George Desmareeswas born in 1697 at Stockholm, where he was instructed in painting by Peter Martin van Meytens, whose assistant he afterwards became. In 1724 he made a stay in Amsterdam, and in the following year in Nuremberg and then in Venice, where he received further tuition from Piazzetta. In 1731 he settled in Munich, where he became court painter, and where he continued to reside till his death in 1776. A portrait of himself and one of his daughter are, with a third in the Munich Gallery, and other portraits by him are at Augsburg.
Jean-Laurent MosnierFrench portrait Painter , b. ca. 1743, Paris, d. 1808, St. Petersburg
Vilhelm HammershoiDanish Painter, 1864-1916, was a painter born in Copenhagen, Denmark known for his poetic, low-key portraits and interiors.The son of a well-to-do merchant, Christian Hammershoi and his wife, Frederikke (nee Rentzmann), Vilhelm studied drawing from the age of eight with Neils Christian Kierkegaard and Holger Gronvold, as well as painting with Vilhelm Kyhn, before embarking on studies with Frederik Vermehren and others at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. From 1883 to 1885, he studied with Peder Severin Kroyer.