Robert Nanteuil

Place: Reims

Born: 1623

Death: 1678

Biography:

Robert Nanteuil (1623 or 1630–1678) was a French portrait artist : engraver, draughtsman and pastellist to the court of Louis XIV He was born in Reims in 1623, or, as other authorities state, in 1630, the son of a merchant of Reims. He studied philosophy in his native Reims but was already an engraver by the time he defended his thesis in 1645. He ...