Joseph-Benoît Suvée

Joseph-Benoît Suvée (Bruges, 3 January 1743 – Rome, 9 February 1807) was a Belgian painter strongly influenced by French neo-classicism. Initially a pupil of Matthias de Visch, he came to France aged 19 and became a pupil of Jean-Jacques Bachelier. In 1771, he won the Prix de Rome. In Rome from 1772 to 1778, he prolonged the usual duration allowed to pensionaries of the French Academy in Rome. He was named an academician on his return to Paris an... more

Date of birth:

  • Jan 3, 1743

Date of death:

  • Feb 9, 1807 (age 64 years)

Country of nationality:

Visual Artist

Art Forms:

Associated periods or movements:

top ↑

People

Gender:

Places lived:

top ↑ top ↑

Similar topics in Freebase

  • Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

    Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

    Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (French pronunciation: [ɛ̃ːɡʁ]) (29 August 1780 – 14 January 1867) was a French Neoclassical painter. Although he considered himself to be a painter of history in the tradition of Nicolas Poussin and Jacques-Louis David, by the end of his life it was Ingres's portraits...
  • Jean-Baptiste Regnault

    Jean-Baptiste Regnault

    Jean-Baptiste Regnault (October 9, 1754 - November 12, 1829) was a French painter. Regnault was born in Paris, and began life at sea in a merchant vessel. At the age of fifteen his talent attracted attention, and he was sent to Italy by M. de Monval under the care of Bardin. After his return to...
  • Alexandre Jacovleff

    Alexandre Jacovleff

    Alexandre Yevgenievich Jacovleff (also spelt Iacovleff or Yakovlev, Russian: Александр Евгеньевич Яковлев; 25 June [O.S. 13 June] 1887 - 12 May 1938) was a Russian neoclassicist painter, draughtsman, designer and etcher. Alexandre was the son of a naval officer from Saint Petersburg, where he was...
  • François-André Vincent

    François-André Vincent

    François-André Vincent (December 30, 1746 – August 4, 1816) was a French neoclassical painter. He was the son of the miniaturist François-Elie Vincent and studied under Joseph-Marie Vien. He travelled to Rome, where he won the Prix de Rome in 1768. From 1771 to 1775 he studied there at the Académie...
  • Anselm Feuerbach

    Anselm Feuerbach

    Anselm Feuerbach (September 12, 1829 – January 4, 1880) was a German painter. He was the leading classicist painter of the German 19th-century school. According to the 1911 Britannica, He was the first to realize the danger arising from contempt of technique, that mastery of craftsmanship was...
  • Albert Henry Krehbiel

    Albert Henry Krehbiel (November 25, 1873 - June 29, 1945), although educated as a realist in Paris, which is reflected in his neoclassical mural works, soon developed a strong appreciation for impressionism and is mainly known as an American impressionist. Later in his career, Krehbiel began...

These people have edited this topic:

Edit this topic
Edit and Show details

Add or delete facts, download data in JSON or RDF formats, and explore topic metadata.

Freebase Logo
What is Freebase?

Freebase is a huge collection of facts, built by people like you. Freebase connects facts in ways other sites can't, giving you new ways to explore millions of subjects.
You can help improve it!

Freebase Attribution

Freebase data is free for use under the CC-BY license.

The original description for Joseph-Benoît Suvée was automatically generated from Wikipedia.org licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.
[1]
Learn more about Freebase licensing and attribution