Louis Caravaque, a French portrait painter, was a native of Gascony. He went to Russia, and in 1716 painted at Astrakhan the portrait of Peter the Great, which has been engraved by Massard and by Langlois. He again painted the Czar in 1723, and subsequently the Empresses Anne and Elizabeth. He died in Russia in 1752. Related Paintings of Louis Caravaque :. | Piotr Romanow as Cupid | Louis Caravaque | Portrait of Elizabeth of Russia | Portrait of Natalia Romanov | Portrait of a boy. Was att. as Peter III or Peter II's portrait, possibly Elizabeth in men's dress | Related Artists:
Austrian Schoolpainted Future Emperor Charles VI in before 1711
THORNHILL, Sir JamesEnglish painter (b. 1676, Melcombe Regis, d. 1734, Weymouth).
Cornelis Hendriksz Vroom(1591, Haarlem - buried September 16, 1661, Haarlem) was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter.
According to the RKD he was the son of the painter Hendrick Cornelisz Vroom, the older brother of Frederick and Jacob, and the father of the painter Jacob Cornelisz Vroom.[1] He became a member of the Haarlem Guild of St. Luke in 1634.
According to Houbraken in 1718, who repeated a list of names from Theodorus Schrevelius's 1648 book on Haarlem called Harlemias, he was the son of Hendrick Cornelisz Vroom and a good landscape painter of Haarlem along with "Joh. Jakobsz.", who was in Italy for many years, "Nicol. Zuyker", Gerrit Claesz Bleker, Salomon van Ruysdael, and Reyer van Blommendael.
