George De Marées

Place: Pittsburgh

Born: 1697

Death: 1777

Biography:

Georg Desmarées or Des Marées, a portrait painter, was born in 1697 at Stockholm, where he was instructed in painting by Martin Meytens, whose assistant he afterwards became. In 1724 he made a stay in Amsterdam, and in the following year in Nuremberg and then in Venice, where he received further tuition fromPiazzetta. In 1731 he settled in Munich, ...