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Blanchet, Louis-Gabriel

Blanchet, Louis-Gabriel Prince Henry Benedict Stuart (mk25) oil painting on canvas
Prince Henry Benedict Stuart (mk25)
Painting ID::  24080
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Blanchet, Louis-Gabriel Prince Henry Benedict Stuart (mk25) oil painting on canvas



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  Blanchet, Louis-Gabriel
  French Painter, 1705-1772 French painter, active in Rome. He won second place in the Prix de Rome competition in 1727 and thereafter settled in Rome, where he enjoyed the patronage of Nicolas Vleughels, Director of the Acad?mie de France, and the Duc de Saint-Aignan (1684-1776), who at that time was French Ambassador to the Holy See. In 1752 Blanchet painted the Vision of Constantine (Paris, Louvre), a copy of Giulio Romano's fresco in the Sala di Costantino in the Vatican. He was, however, principally a portrait painter. His portrait of Tolozan de Montfort (1756; Lyon, Mus. B.-A.) is a fine example of his elegant, rather nervous style and his distinctive use of colour. In the same year Blanchet executed a portrait of the contemporary painter Johann Mandelberg (1730-86; Copenhagen, Kon. Dan. Kstakad.). Other surviving works of his include St Paul (signed and dated 1757; Avignon, Mus. Calvet) and his full-length portrait of P. P. Lesueur and E. Jacquier (1772; Nantes, Mus. B.-A.).
  Prince Henry Benedict Stuart (mk25)
  1737-8

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