François-hubert drouais
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Biography
French painter, part of a family of painters. His father, Francois Hubert Drouais, and his grandfather, Hubert Drouais, were well-known portrait painters; and it was from his father that he received his first artistic instruction. In 1778 enrolled at the Académie Royale, becoming a pupil of Nicolas-Guy Brenet. Around 1781 he entered Jacques-Louis David's studio as one of his first pupils. The following year, though not officially entered for the competition, he painted that year's Prix de Rome subject, the Return of the Prodigal Son (Paris, St Roch), presumably as a trial for his own edification. The picture has a friezelike composition and reveals both the influence of Jean-François Peyron and David as well as debts to Poussin and Italian 17th-century sources.
In 1783 Drouais reached the Prix de Rome final with the Resurrection of the Son of the Widow of Nain (Le Mans, Musée Tessé) but was eliminated from the competition in extraordinary circumstances: impatient to know his master's opinion, Drouais cut a section off the canvas and smuggled it out of the competiti
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(b Paris, 14 Dec. 1727; d Paris, 21 Oct. 1775). French portrait painter. He trained under Boucher (among others) and became a rival to Nattier as a fashionable portraitist. His portraits have a gracious and artificial charm and at their best bear comparison with those of Boucher. He was particularly successful with children, but his best-known painting is probably the very grand portrait of Mme de Pompadour in the National Gallery, London (1763–4), completed after the sitter's death. His father and his son were painters. Hubert Drouais (1699–1767) had a successful career as a miniaturist and pastel portraitist. Germain Drouais (1763–88) was J.-L. David's favourite pupil and won the Prix de Rome in 1784; David regarded him as his greatest potential rival (‘He alone could trouble my sleep’), but he died of smallpox aged 24.
Text source: The Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists (Oxford University Press)
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François-Hubert Drouais
French painter
François-Hubert Drouais (French pronunciation:[fʁɑ̃swaybɛʁdʁuɛ]; Paris, 14 December 1727 – Paris, 21 October 1775) was a leading French portrait painter during the latter years of Louis XV's reign.[1][2] His clientele included the French royal family and nobility, foreign aristocracy, fermiers-généraux (tax farmers), and the wealthier members of Parisian society and their favourites. But it was his increasing popularity at the French court that expanded his clientele and made his portraits a fashionable necessity. Drouais's work was admired during his lifetime, and his popularity and clientele did not diminish from the occasional adverse judgement published in Salon reviews.
Drouais was apprenticed successively to his father Hubert Drouais, Donat Nonnotte, Charles-André van Loo, Charles-Joseph Natoire, and François Boucher. He was received into the Académie royale in 1758 with his morceaux des réception portraits of the celebrated sculptors Edme Bouchardon (1698–1762) and Guillaume II Coustou (1716–77). B
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