Pierre-Étienne Falconet

yer: Paris

Doğmuş: 1741

Ölüm: 1791

Biyografi:

Pierre-Étienne Falconet, also known as Peter Falconet, was a French portrait painter born in Paris in 1741. He was the son of the sculptor Étienne Maurice Falconet and studied in the French Academy before moving to London in 1766 to work under the direction of Joshua Reynolds. In London, he obtained a premium of twenty guineas for a painting in chiaroscuro in 1766 and another of twenty-six guineas for an historical composition in 1768. He was a member of the Incorporated Society of Artists and contributed to their exhibitions from 1767 to 1773, and occasionally to the Royal Academy, mostly portraits. He returned to France around 1773 and married Marie-Anne Collot, his father's assistant and a sculptor. He continued to paint and died in 1791. Falconet is best known in England by a set of portraits of eminent artists, drawn in profile in blacklead, with a slight tint of colour on the cheeks; these were engraved in the dotted manner by D. P. Pariset, and also by Burnet Reading. Many of his other portraits were engraved, among them being: Horace Walpole, James Granger, Viscount Nuneham, the Earl and Countess of Marchmont and their son, Lord Polwarth, Hugh Percy, 1st Duke of Northumberland, Christian VII of Denmark, all engraved by D.P. Pariset; Elizabeth, Countess of Harcourt, Elizabeth, Countess of Ancrum, Mrs. Green and her son, and others engraved in mezzotint by Valentine Green; others were engraved by Hibbert, James Watson, John Dixon, Gabriel Smith, and J. F. Bause. There is a small engraving, from a design by Falconet, representing the interior of his father's studio. He also engraved himself some designs of François Boucher. His daughter, Madame Jankowitz, bequeathed a collection of his works to the Museum at Nancy, comprising portraits of himself and family, pictures and drawings, besides some plaster busts by his wife, including one of Falconet himself. He decorated a Chinese temple for Lady de Grey at Wrest in Bedfordshire.