Style: Baroque;
Place: Brussels
Born: 1602
Death: 1674
Biography:
Philippe de Champaigne (French pronunciation: [ʃɑ̃paɲ] 26 May 1602 – 12 August 1674) was a Brabançon-born French Baroque era painter, a major exponent of the French school. He was a founding member of the Académie de peinture et de sculpture in Paris, the premier art institution in France in the eighteenth century. Born of a poor family in Brussel...
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