portraitist

Thomas Couture (21 December 1815 - 30 March 1879), French academic painter, portraitist, history painter. Born in Senlis, in a poor family, he moved to Paris in 1826, at the age of 14 he began studying at the Ecole des Metiers et Arts, then worked in the studio of Gros. In 1831 he was admited at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, but after failing to win the Prix de Rome six times in a row, ...

Born on 08 September 1706: chevalier Antoine de Favray, French painter, active and famous in Malta, who died on 26 February 1798. In 1738 he was a private student of Jean-François de Troy II, who was then director of the Académie de France in Rome. In 1739 de Favray became an official student at the Académie. Among his student works is a copy of Raphael’s Fire ...