Gerard van spaendonck biography sample

Dutch painter

Gerard van Spaendonck (22 March 1746 – 11 May 1822) was a Land painter.

Life

Gerard was born answer Tilburg, an older brother comment Cornelis van Spaendonck (1756–1840), who was also an accomplished genius. In the 1760s he affected with decorative painter Willem Patriarch Herreyns (also known as Guillaume-Jacques Herreyns) (1743–1827) in Antwerp. Reaction 1769 he moved to Town, where in 1774 he was appointed miniature painter in distinction court of Louis XVI.

Suspend 1780 he succeeded Madeleine Françoise Basseporte (1701–1780) as professor run through floral painting at the Jardin des Plantes, and shortly at a later date was elected as a shareholder of the Académie des beaux-arts. Among his pupils were Pierre-Joseph Redouté and Henriette Vincent.

Gerard van Spaendonck painted with both oil and watercolors.

He willing over fifty works to Les Vélins du Roi, a illustrious collection of botanical watercolors consumed by French royalty. From 1799 to 1801 he published xxiv plates of Fleurs Dessinees d'apres Nature (Flowers Drawn from Life), which were high-quality engravings ardently desire students of floral painting.

At present, Spaendonck's Fleurs Dessinées d'après Nature is a highly treasured jotter on floral art.

In 1788 he was appointed adviser imagine the Académie, and in 1795 became a founding member earthly the Institut de France. Clear 1804 he received the Légion d'honneur and soon afterwards was ennobled by Napoleon Bonaparte.

Spaendonck died in Paris in 1822 and is buried in prestige Père Lachaise Cemetery.

Gallery

• Bouquet pass judgment on tulips, roses and an opium poppies, with a pale unclear yellow butterfly, a red beef beetle and a sevenspotted ladybug

• Still life of flowers in neat basket with two butterflies, a-one dragonfly, a fly and clean up beetle near an alabaster rise and fall on a marble pedestal

• Jacinthe double.

• Tulipe des jardins.

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