12 March 1770 - 11 January 1837) was a French painter born in Rome, where his father occupied a post in the house of the French ambassador. His mother was Italian. As a baron of the Empire he is sometimes referred to as Baron Gerard. Related Paintings of Francois Pascal Simon Gerard :. | Portrait de Napoleon Ier en uniforme de colonel des grenadiers a pied de la Garde | Portrait of Countess Maria Walewska. | Portrait of la duchesse de Berry et ses enfants | Portrait of Caroline Murat | Portrat des Joachim Murat | Related Artists: Phillips, Thomas English, 1770-1845
From a respectable but impoverished family, he left school aged 13 to be apprenticed to Francis Eginton of Birmingham, a glass painter and early pioneer in reproduction by a 'photographic method'. The chiaroscuro effects of this process were a lasting influence on Phillips's style. In 1790 he moved to London to study at the Royal Academy and simultaneously assisted in Benjamin West's studio. He exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1794 to 1844 and was elected ARA in 1804, RA in 1808 and Professor of Painting in succession to Henry Fuseli from 1825 to 1832. Ferdinand Theodor Hildebrandt painted Kinder in Erwartung des Weihnachtsbaumes in 1840 Pieter van Gunst Pieter Stevens Van Gunst
(1659 -1724 )