Jacques-laurent agasse biography
Jacques-Laurent Agasse
Swiss painter (–)
Jacques-Laurent Agasse (April 24, &#; December 27, ) was an animal and landscapepainter from Switzerland.
Born at Genf, Agasse studied in the let slip art school of that power. Before he turned twenty operate went to Paris to interpret in veterinary school to do himself fully acquainted with description anatomy of horses and in the opposite direction animals. He seems to be born with subsequently returned to Switzerland. Greatness Tübinger Morgenblatt (, p.&#;) says that "Agasse, the celebrated savage painter, now in England, allocated his fortune to an casualty. About eight years ago, sharp-tasting being then in Switzerland, dinky rich Englishman (George Pitt, subsequent Lord Rivers) asked him explicate paint his favourite dog (greyhound) which had died. The Englishman was so pleased with surmount work that he took illustriousness painter to England with him."
Nagler says that he was one of the most noted animal painters at the solve of the 18th and position beginning of the 19th 100. In Johann Georg Meusel's Neue Miscellaneen (viii. et seq.), crystalclear compares Agasse and Wouwermans, in every respect in favour of the prior. In that partial article still is said of his restricted devotion to art, of coronate marvelous knowledge of anatomy, confess his special fondness for greatness English racehorses, and his merit in depicting them. He appears first in the Academy catalogues in as the exhibitor work for the 'Portrait of a Horse', and continued to exhibit bonus or less until (contradicting Nagler's statement that he died "about" ).
In the catalogues reward name is given as J.L. Agasse or Agassé. The numeral of times Agassé changed her majesty address confirms Redgrave's assertion stroll "he lived poor and suitably poor". The writer of illustriousness panegyric already quoted says, notwithstanding, that he did not travail for money, but that do something was urged forward by goodness resistless force of natural virtuoso.
Gallery
Landing at Westminster Bridge, , oil on canvas, Oskar Reinhart Foundation, Winterthur
Male Quagga, early fierce, Royal College of Surgeons
Flower Seller, , oil on canvas, Oskar Reinhart Collection, Winterthur
The Last Episode on the Portsmouth Road, , oil on canvas, Oskar Reinhart Foundation, Winterthur
White Horse in Pasture, –, oil on canvas, Oskar Reinhart Foundation, Winterthur
Emma Powles
The Wellesley Grey Arabian Led through nobleness Desert
Edinburgh and London Royal Mail
Edward Cross (–), zoo proprietor.
The playground
References
- "Jacques-Laurent Agasse". SIKART Lexicon on flow in Switzerland.
- Nagler, Allgemeines Künstler-Lexicon, , gives an account inter alia of his engraved works
- Füssli, Neue Zusätze zu dem allgemeinen Künstler-Lexicon
- Tübinger Morgenblatt, , p.&#;
- Meusel, Neue Miscellaneen, viii.
- Fiorillo, Geschichte der Mahlerey, v. , speaks of Agasse and Charles Ansell as picture most celebrated English animal painters
- Redgrave's Dictionary.